• Researchers collected qualitative data from students and teachers: response logs, field notes, audio/video tape, and digital photos
• Presented Boys as Readers at international conference: Fun of Reading Conference, Ottawa, June, 2003
• Invited to make presentations provincially for teacher professional development, principals' conferences, and school board meetings
  
  
  

Objective II:

• To examine the reading preferences of boys and girls through their critical responses to a variety of literature genres
  
  
  

Data Collection/Method of Evaluation:

• Literature review
• Mentor Response Logs
• Student Response Logs
• Student reading interview
  
  
  

Activities:

• Conducted extensive research on boys' and girls' reading materials
• Met with children's librarians
• Invited community readers to read and review books
• Annotated bibliographies prepared by student researchers:
  • Gender and literacy
  • Children's literature
• Analyzed student reading interviews to prepare a bibliography of boy-friendly books
• Gathered information on book preferences from Mentor and Student Response Logs
• Continued to purchase books