"Teachers are giving up trying to make boys read long books because they cannot get past 100 pages, new research as found."
That's the lead sentence to this article from the British newspaper, anyway. Apparently some research suggests that boys are turned off by long books -- defined in the article as 200+ pages -- simply because they are long.
It's more of the "boys can't sit still" stuff, but there are some good points about motivation and interest that come from the article as well.
The whole things reminds me of that body of "comics as a conduit" research that suggests that comics readers go on to read more and more varied literature than non-readers. The article does mention comics as a means of helping boys develop a love a reading.
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I read this earlier today, but I'm still not sure how to respond to it :-/
Lol, me neither, as you could probably tell by the post.
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