He has a series of videos on boys' learning and each video includes a short handout linked just below the video.
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Thoughts, links, books, and ideas on motivating our boy writers.
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Sally Wilkinson in her journal article "Encouraging Boys' Writing" writes about how the use of film and visual and still images encourage and motivate boy writers.
Here's a sample issue of English 4 to 11. The English Association and UK Literacy Association.
Ontario teachers can read "Encouraging Boys' Writing" on the EBSCO database.
A study of survey data collected in May 2009 was recently released.
The Natioinal Literacy Trust studied young people's attitudes and behaviour and the role of technology in writing. The study includes some data about boy writers.
"by exploring a greater variety of possible writing formats. For example, technology based formats, in the form of text messages, blogs or notes on a social networking site, feature strongly as a vehicle to encourage pupils to write more widely.
By showing that websites, emails, blogs and networking sites were among the most commonly written formats outside of school, this study highlights the importance of technology in informing young people’s writing choices."
Source: U.K. Literacy Trust: Writing Survey 2009 Page 35