I’ve posted several times about this new program for boys at our school – the VPAA Guys Read Club. I took the boys’ “thoughts about reading” before and after the program and typed them into wordle for a nice graphic comparison:
What the guys thought about reading before Guys Read Club started:
What the guys thought about reading six months later - after Guys Read Club ended:
They say a picture’s worth thousand words… I think these words say volumes about the impact of the Guys Read Club.
We wrap up the club this week with a great challenge for the boys in the gym – we’ll share pictures later. Thanks again to all the men who volunteered their time to make this program work for the boys: Mr. White, Mr. Voltz, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Kendall, Mr. O’Connell, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ausman, and Deputy T.
You can read an entire summary of the year on author Marc Aronson’s School Library Journal blog, Non-Fiction Matters.
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