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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1463] HELP!!!--Motivating young African-American males to read
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Hi again,
I thought that this could be an appropriate topic for the family literacy discussion because individuals do develop their understanding of and ideas about books and reading most powerfully from their observation of family members. Young African-American males (I mean youngsters...juveniles...teens...children) are members of families in the vast majority of cases. They are children and sometimes parents in those families. Given this, might there be programs that capitalize on the familial associations of African-American men with regard to the literacy of male children? I think that if there were, some boys, especially some black boys would be less likely to perceive reading as "acting white" or feminine (but that's another issue). Instead, reading could be just another thing that they do.
Lynn
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