mini report

This was our first assignment, but I forgot to blog about it! The title of my article was "What We Want: Boys and Girls Talk about Reading", from the ALA. This article was an interesting case study on why boys perform lower on their EOG's in reading. Basically their findings were that boys are not getting to read more of the things that they are interested in. If the library doesn't have anything that boys are interested in, then they are not going to read. Makes sense to me! Most of the article is made up of statistics of the different questions that were given to a group of thirty five boys age 10 to 13. Some of the questions that were given Do you like to read for pleasure, why or why not?, what would you rather do than read?, and Do the men in your family read? There were 19 questions that were asked about reading.