How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught
Perspectives, Ideologies, and Pedagogical Approaches for Instruction and Assessment
- 198 pages
- English
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How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught
Perspectives, Ideologies, and Pedagogical Approaches for Instruction and Assessment
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by Crag Hill
- 1 An Introduction
- 2 What We Learn from the Research on YAL Methods Syllabi
- 3 “You Gotta Know the Territory”: A Comprehensive Historical Approach to Teaching a Young Adult Literature Course
- 4 From Hovering in the Margin to Taking Center Stage: Including YA in the English Methods Course
- 5 Understanding the Value of Choice in the Young Adult Literature Methods Course
- 6 A Social Action Approach to Young Adult Literature: Reading and Moving for Justice
- 7 Teaching Young Adult Verse Novels: Creating Student Writers by Honoring the White Spaces
- 8 Teaching Graphic Novels: Form and Content
- 9 Augmented Reading for Hyperconnected Youth: A Multimedia Approach to Young Adult Literature
- 10 Let Them Watch, Let Them Read, Let Them Choose: The YA Novel and Film Course
- 11 Who Is the “Young Adult” in Young Adult Literature?: Critically Analyzing Conceptions of Adolescence in Texts Designed for Their Consumption
- 12 The Theory-Directed Syllabus: An Update on Teaching YAL through Critical Frameworks
- 13 Who We Are Where We Are: Reading and Teaching YAL through a Place-Based Lens
- 14 Teaching Young Adult Literature in the High School Classroom
- 15 Information Literacy and the Inclusive Classroom: Preparing Future Educators to Challenge Implicit Biases in Curriculum Materials
- Index