For schools to effectively teach literacy, they should work with, not against, the cultural tools that students bring to school. Outside school, students' lives are immersed in visually mediated narratives. By tapping into the cultural, artistic, and linguistic resources of popular culture and multimedia, teachers can create more willing readers and improve boys' literacy learning. Several strategies can help. Teachers can encourage boys to write on media-based plots, give boys room to improvise within media-based plots, and use multimodal stories, such as literature videos and comic books, in the classroom.