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"Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Menreviewed by Elizabeth Shellard - 2003 Title: "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men Author(s): Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm Publisher: Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH ISBN: 0867095091, Pages: 248, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com What constitutes literacy? What makes a person literate? What
type of reading holds educational value? Michael W. Smith and
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm directly address these sometimes unsettling
questions and call into question the type of literature taught in
high school English programs in “Reading Don’t Fix
No Chevys”: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men.
Through interviews with a diverse selection of high-school-aged
boys, Smith and Wilhelm attempt to uncover the many factors that
influence boys’ reading achievement and literate behaviors in
school. Their study is motivated by numerous standardized score
reports showing that boys frequently score lower on tests of
reading comprehension and writing than girls, studies that show
many boys to be uninterested in reading for pleasure, and their own
observations that many boys frequently do not seem to take interest
in the literature read in their high school classes.
Like many studies that attempt to investigate the influence of
gender on a particular variable, the authors include a discussion
of the social construction of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Elizabeth Shellard
Educational Research Service E-mail Author ELIZABETH G. SHELLARD is a research specialist at Educational Research Service. Her research primarily focuses on effective instructional techniques and the characteristics of effective schools. She has written several articles on the critical attributes of effective reading programs. Her previous co-authored books, What Every Principal Needs to Know About Teaching ... Reading and What Every Principal Needs to Know About Teaching ... Mathematics (National Association of Elementary School Principals, 2001 and 2002), provide principals with an overview of effective instruction in reading and mathematics. Her research interests include effective teaching, teacher education, literacy development, the influence of gender on moral development, and the influence of gender on teaching and learning.
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