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Newkirk, Thomas – 2002
This book takes an up-close and personal look at elementary school boys and their relationship to sports, movies, video games, and other avenues of popular culture. The book views these media not as enemies of literacy, but as resources "for" literacy. It contains a series of interviews with young boys and girls who describe the pleasure…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interviews, Language Arts, Literacy