http://fourcircleslearning.com Skills and tools for a changing world Tue, 22 May 2012 07:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fourcircleslearning.com/boys-reading/#comment-412 Tue, 22 May 2012 07:01:05 +0000 http://fourcircleslearning.wordpress.com/#comment-412 [...] #1. Boys’ brains develop more slowly than girls’. There are studies of brain development that show even from embryonic stages, the male hormones slow brain development (especially in linguistic acquisition) when compared to their female counterparts. This explains why boys tend to talk later than girls, and also gives us a foundation for understanding why reading development for boys differs from girls. In fact, by middle school, boys are nearly 1 & 1/2 years behind girls in reading. [...]

]]> http://fourcircleslearning.com/boys-reading/#comment-178 Fri, 06 May 2011 02:33:09 +0000 http://fourcircleslearning.wordpress.com/#comment-178 Thanks, will do.

]]> http://fourcircleslearning.com/boys-reading/#comment-154 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:27:42 +0000 http://fourcircleslearning.wordpress.com/#comment-154 Thanks for the list of blogs. You might pop over to mine– I don’t do exclusively boys’ books, but I do try to have several every week.

]]> http://fourcircleslearning.com/boys-reading/#comment-4 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:58:37 +0000 http://fourcircleslearning.wordpress.com/#comment-4 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Donna Bills, Deb Hanson. Deb Hanson said: Resources on Boys & Reading – research and blog lists http://ow.ly/2gzCI [...]

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