Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning

Wilhelm and Smith have drawn attention to this critical area of teaching. Teaching is not Iowa Tests or TASS or FCAT or any other multiple choice regimen; -resit involves a conversation with students, and through that conversation the teacher will get to know the student and how the material will help the student. Though presenting to some thirty students in a classroom, this style worked for Socrates and continues to work for those seeking engagement of young minds and finding ways to that engagement. For me, bringing up the well-researched ideas of 'flow' was critical. I had experienced it and my students had experienced it, but I didn't have a name for it and so I couldn't build on my success. By learning its context and components, I was able to help students move forward. The next critical area, and one that opens the book, is understanding how narrowly we have defined reading; this is where most non-linguistic and non-logical learners bail out of class and the vehicle that can deliver them to the future, if it can be adjusted for changing times while keeping the core: engagement and flow. They provide the personalities that make data readable and understandable. All sincere adults should benefit from teachers to administrators to curriculum developers. This book provides the vocabulary for good parent teacher student meetings.

This book gets down to the essence of English/Language Arts and what we should aim to impart our students with. It's a gem for pre-service or beginning teachers who have not yet settled into the cohesive groove that they would like to unify their teaching with.

I had to buy it for a class report. It was interesting and very informative and It was a good suggestion for class reading.

The authors reference their first book way too much. This book is hard to read without knowing what the first book is about. This book also seems limited in its ideas about how to engage boys in literacy.

Very impressed with the shipping speed from the seller! The book also provides important literacy insights for current and prospective educators.

This book is very interesting and full of practical strategies for reaching all students. It is a book for thinking.