Reading, Writing, and Gender

by Goldberg, Gail Lynn

• ISBN13: 9781930556232
• ISBN10: 1930556233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Eye on Education

Summary

Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies and classroom activities to help both girls and boys develop as readers and writers. This book is for classroom teachers in grades 3 - 8 as well as for reading specialists, instructional leaders and other educators. It provides - detailed descriptions of instructional activities, accompanied by reproducible tools and materials - illustrative examples of student work - concise summaries of state-of-the-art research - ideas for action research projectsThe strategies and activities in this book have all been classroom tested with diverse student populations.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Preface	xi
PART ONE---BOYS AND GIRLS AS READERS AND WRITERS: WHAT WE KNOW	1	(16)
A New Gender Gap?	1	(3)
Proficiency in Reading And Writing	4	(2)
Assessing Proficiency in Reading and Writing	6	(1)
From Assessment to Inquiry	6	(10)
You Are What You Read/You Read What You Are	7	(1)
What You See Is What You Get	8	(1)
Just Say ``No''	9	(1)
The Case of the Disappearing Audience	9	(1)
Where's Grandma?	10	(1)
You Are What You Write/You Write What You Are	11	(1)
Contest Without Context	12	(1)
The Girls Who Never Screamed Again	13	(1)
Add a Princess and Stir	13	(3)
From Inquiry to Intervention	16	(1)
PART TWO---BOYS AND GIRLS AS READERS: WHAT WE CAN DO	17	(74)
On The Shelf: Inventorying by The Teacher	19	(8)
Classroom Library: Vision and Variety	20	(3)
Men and Women in the Worlds We Read	23	(2)
Teachers as Readers	25	(1)
Revisiting Old Friends	26	(1)
Off the Shelf: Inventorying by And With Students	27	(8)
Reading Celebrities	27	(5)
Variations/Extensions	32	(3)
A Reading Celebrity's Autobiography	32	(1)
What Did You Read Today? (A Day in the Life of Reading Celebrity)	32	(1)
Reading Detective	32	(1)
Magazine Exchange	32	(3)
A Matter of Choice/Choice Matters to Readers	35	(8)
Charting Reading Choices	35	(4)
Variations/Extensions	39	(4)
Reading Choices Bingo	39	(1)
Reading Rolodex	39	(3)
``Log'' On Again	42	(1)
Piggybacking on Popularity	42	(1)
Reading Across Purposes	43	(4)
Recommending Reading Clusters	44	(3)
Clusters for Grades 3--5	45	(1)
Clusters for Grades 6--8	45	(2)
Validating the Negative	47	(10)
Rave Reviews and Book ``Boo's''	47	(6)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	53	(4)
Becoming Mapmakers of a New World: Rethinking Story and Character Maps	57	(10)
Mapping and Remapping	57	(6)
Variations/Extensions	63	(4)
Angles of Vision	63	(1)
What's It About?	63	(2)
Summaries and Story Maps	65	(2)
Between the Two of Us---Author and Authority: Encouraging Interpretive Reading	67	(4)
Editor's Notes	67	(2)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	69	(2)
Exploring Multiple Perspectives	71	(6)
Parallel Lives	72	(3)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	75	(2)
Understanding The Functions of Text Features	77	(8)
How Meaning Is Made/What Meaning Is Made	77	(3)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	80	(5)
Linking Reading In The Content Areas to Personal and Prior Knowledge	85	(6)
Part to Whole	86	(2)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	88	(3)
PART THREE---BOYS AND GIRLS AS WRITERS: WHAT WE CAN DO	91	(72)
Enhancing Expressive Writing	93	(12)
Pass the Bag	93	(2)
Variations/Extensions	95	(10)
Three Times Better	95	(1)
Ways of Saying	95	(5)
Seeing Double or Even Triple: Double/Triple Entry Journals	100	(1)
Pause and Post-It	101	(4)
Getting to the Point Versus Guiding Readers Toward the Point When Writing to Inform	105	(6)
Stretch It	105	(1)
Variations/Extensions	106	(5)
Examining Examples	106	(2)
Any Anecdotes?	108	(1)
All Together Now	109	(1)
Look Who's Talking	109	(2)
Assertion and Negotiation: Helping Students ``Make A Case'' When Writing to Persuade	111	(6)
Who's in Charge?	112	(2)
Variations/Extensions	114	(3)
Some Mini-Lessons	114	(1)
Good/Better Than/Best	115	(1)
Shoe on the Other Foot	115	(1)
Refutation Wall	116	(1)
Get the Picture: Development at the Planning Stage of Writing	117	(8)
I-Con Do More	117	(3)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	120	(5)
A Matter of Choice/Choice Matters To Writers	125	(6)
Charting Choices as Writers	126	(2)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	128	(3)
Author's Craft and the Making of Meaning: Using Text Features in Writing	131	(12)
Cut-up Collages: Writing to Inform	132	(4)
I See What You Mean: Using Text Features When Writing Poetry	136	(3)
Revising/Re-Visioning Poems	136	(1)
Acclaim for Frames	136	(2)
Step by Step with Frames	138	(1)
A Comic Conflict: Using Text Features to Enhance Persuasive Writing	139	(4)
Selling/Dispelling Gender Stereotypes	143	(4)
Analyzing Ads	144	(1)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	145	(2)
Writing as an Aggressive/Transgressive Act	147	(6)
Action/Reaction	148	(2)
Variations/Extensions: Some Suggestions	150	(3)
Retelling Counts	153	(8)
Oft-Told Tales	153	(4)
Variations/Extensions	157	(4)
From Margin to Center	157	(2)
Retelling as Updating	159	(1)
Ventriloquism	159	(1)
Regenerate a Genre	159	(2)
Postscript: Beyond the Page and Beyond These Pages	161	(2)
Recommended Reading on Literacy and Gender (An Annotated Bibliography)	163	(6)
Children's Literature Cited	169	(6)
References	175