Many “experts” say that too many boys don’t read, when in reality, what they mean is boys don’t read fiction, which for some reason, seems to be the only thing that counts. Even Jerry Spinelli said he didn’t read as a child, and then he goes on to describe all the cereal boxes, comic books, and baseball statistics from the newspaper that he read. Isn’t that reading? Doesn’t it count? If a boy only reads articles on the internet, in the newspaper, in magazines like Sports Illustrated, comic books, graphic novels, and cereal boxes, does that make his reading less important than if he were reading novels? Why? Why not?
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sing it sister! I teach 8th grade. My boys read, they just tend to read magazines or newspapers. They are pretty surprised when I tell them that those are great things to read since they are usually around 8th grade reading level!
If they like to read anything it counts in my book.
i was wondering what some of your favourite books are?
yah well i dont really ever look for another book that i read in class becuase your doing all this novel study and they dont ever really make you want to read others by them and well i read novels like calvin and hobbes but i also read like redwall i really got hooked on those so i believe some boys do read well but some just neglect it
Reading sports statistics, comic books, etc. is kind of like listening to fluffy pop music whereas reading literary novels is more like listening to classical or jazz music. When I was a kid I mostly read historical non-fiction. For pleasure anyway. Of course I read the books assigned for school but rarely did I seek out another book by an author I’d read for a class. John Steinbeck was the exception.