Author: Louann ReidPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Twenty-five educators recommend proven novels, nonfiction works, and short story collections that adolescents enjoy.
Rationales for Teaching Young Adult Literature
Author: Louann ReidPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Twenty-five educators recommend proven novels, nonfiction works, and short story collections that adolescents enjoy.
Rationales for Teaching Young Adult Literature
Author: Jamie Hayes NeufeldPublisher: Boynton/Cook
ISBN: 9780867095999
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Twenty-five educators recommend proven novels, nonfiction works, and short story collections that adolescents enjoy.
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Author: Judith A. HaynPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475829485
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. Literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great reads—smart, insightful, and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents.
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Author: Mike CaddenPublisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603294562
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Thanks to the success of franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, young adult literature has reached a new level of prominence and popularity. Teens and adults alike are drawn to the genre's coming-of-age themes, fast pacing, and vivid emotional portrayals. The essays in this volume suggest ways high school and college instructors can incorporate YA texts into courses in literature, education, library science, and general education. The first group of essays explores key issues in YA literature, situates works in cultural contexts, and addresses questions of text selection and censorship. The second section discusses a range of genres within YA literature, including both realistic and speculative fiction as well as verse narratives, comics, and film. The final section offers ideas for assignments, including interdisciplinary and digital projects, in a variety of courses.
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Author: Judith A. HaynPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475813031
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This text is intended to give educators a resource to aid them in creating a literacy curriculum. The included chapters written by experts from different universities across the country offer a variety of methods for using YAL to meet the standards while connecting with students. Following a framework first chapter introducing the importance of YAL and discussing its relevance, other authors tackle various ways to teach it. Each chapter may suggest different strategies and rationales for utilizing YAL, but each shares a common purpose with the others: to promote the efficacy of YAL to engage students while at the same time meeting the rigorous standards set forth by the Common Core.
Censored Books
Author: Nicholas J. KarolidesPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810840386
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.
Celebrating Censored Books
Author: Nicholas J. KarolidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"This volume is an effort to provide rationales for the use of a group of controversial books in American public schools"--Introduction
Young Adult Nonfiction
Author: Judith A. HaynPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475812981
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
No matter the location, schools are guided by standards, including Common Core State Standards. This collection of contributions by some of the country’s leading literacy experts offers practical suggestions for implementing young adult literature to meet the demand that standards mandate for focusing on nonfiction in teaching literacy.
Young Adult Literature in the Classroom
Author: Joan B. ElliottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This new volume answers both questions by explaining how YA literature promotes learning across cultures, genres, disciplines, and grade levels, and by giving practical lessons and teaching tips
How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught
Author: Steven T. BickmorePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000728404
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A manual for teaching Young Adult Literature, this textbook presents perspectives and methods on how to organize and teach literature in engaging and inclusive ways that meet specific educational and programmatic goals. Each chapter is written by an expert and offers a rich and nuanced approach to teaching YA Literature through a distinct lens. The effective and creative ways to construct a course explored in this book include multimodal, historical, social justice, place-based approaches, and more. The broad spectrum of topics covered in the text gives pre-service teachers and students a toolbox to select and apply methods of their choosing that support effective reading and writing instruction in their own contexts, motivate students, and foster meaningful conversations in the classroom. Chapters feature consistent sections for theory and practice, course structure, suggestions for activities and assessments, and takeaways for further discussion to facilitate easy implementation in the classroom. This book is an essential text for pre-service teachers of English as well as professors and scholars of Young Adult Literature.