Good Saturday Morning!
1. Question – Is reading for girls?
2. Thought – You could do a whole books on just the
issue of males and computers in our culture, so there
isn’t enough space to do justice to it here, but
this is a book on reading and we have a serious male/boy
problem there. The international study of
fifteen-year-olds in 2000 showed male readers finishing
significantly behind their female peers in all 32 nations.
Along with the sports culture factor I noted in the
introduction, other factors may be at work, including the
fact that at-risk boys often come from families where
there isn’t an adult male at home or that male does
not read to the child or in front of him. Couple with the
fact that most elementary teachers and librarians are
female, the question arises whether boys perceive early on
that “reading is for girls.” (The Read-Aloud
Handbook by Jim Trelease)
He said to him, “What is written in the
law?” How do you read it?
(Jesus, from Luke 10:26 ESV)
