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Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature

Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature. Audience and Strategies. Adolescent Literacy Task Force (IRA). Position Statement and YA Lit (2012): Adolescents deserve access to instruction with multimodal, multiple texts Over 500 new titles each year aimed at teens (Bean et al., 2014)

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Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature

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  1. Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature Audience and Strategies

  2. Adolescent Literacy Task Force (IRA) • Position Statement and YA Lit (2012): • Adolescents deserve access to instruction with multimodal, multiple texts • Over 500 new titles each year aimed at teens (Bean et al., 2014) • Realistic young adult fiction “tackles tough topics and themes, including war, loss, displacement, linguistic and cultural diversity, sexuality, social justice, imprisonment, and abuse” (p. 10)

  3. Realistic YA Fiction

  4. Body Biographies

  5. Science

  6. Multicultural Short Stories

  7. Expanding Defnition of YA Literature • Intended for readers 12 to 18 • Includes postmodern features including • Images and other media • Website connections • Can serve to illuminate text topics in history, mathematics, science, and other content areas • Numerous lesson plans can be found at: • ReadWriteThink • (www.readwritethink.org)

  8. Historical Fiction • Chapter 7 (Bean, Dunkerly-Bean, & Harper, 2014) • “presents the human condition in a way that exposes readers to conflict and dreams set against the backdrop of a particular place and time” (p. 137) • Example: • Salisbury, G. (2005). Eyes of the Emperor. New York, NY: Scholastic. • Other titles

  9. Examples

  10. Examples

  11. Teaching Strategies • Body Biographies • Dinner Party

  12. Resources • American Library Association (ALA) • International Reading Association (IRA) • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) • And sites for resisting censorship • Also see: • Chris Crutcher on Censorship at: • www.chriscrutcher.com/censorship.html

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