Reading across the lines
Subtitle: closing the literacy gender gap
By: CBC News
Contributors: CBC News; Cambridge Educational (Firm)
Series: TED 667 (NU course)
Publisher: Cambridge Educational
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lawrenceville, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 16
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Reading (Elementary); Sex differences; Literacy; Boys; Books and reading; Children; Documentary television programs
Other titles: Closing the literacy gender gap; Gender gap in our schools; News in review (Television program)
Description: An examination of the reading literacy gap between boys and girls in elementary schools. The efficacy of single sex classrooms and the potential of boy-oriented media such as comic books and computer games as teaching tools are explored. It also is suggested that boys are more digitally literate than girls.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 2004 as a segment of the CBC program: News in review. Original broadcast title on disc: The gender gap in our schools. Title on CBC News website: Gender gap : boy's own story.

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Correspondent: Susan Ormiston.

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