Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher Hayn, Kaplan, and their contributors address a wide range of topics: how to avoid common obstacles to using YAL; selecting quality YAL for classrooms while balancing these with curriculum requirement
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| Title | : | Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (205 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442207205 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-03-15 |
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Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, 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. Hayn, Kaplan, and their contributors address a wide range of topics: how to avoid common obstacles to using YAL; selecting quality YAL for classrooms while balancing these with curriculum requirements; engaging disenfranchised readers; pairing YAL with technology as an innovative way to teach curriculum standards across all content areas. Contributors also discuss more theoretical subjects, such as the absence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young adult literature in secondary classrooms; and contemporary YAL that responds to the changing expectations of digital
Editorial : English education scholars Hayn (Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock) and Kaplan (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando) have created a small gem: a book on young adult literature (YAL) that offers a solid introduction to major pedagogical issues of the field and a taste of a YAL survey course. Readers unfamiliar with YAL texts and issues would do well to begin with the first section. Hayn begins with a call for empirical research studies, especially concerning assessment. Kaplan follows with "The Changing Face of Young Adult Literature," which defines, grounds, and surveys YAL, including genres such as series romance and books with religious overtones. This section concludes with an examination of YAL teacher prep: Susan Elliott-Johns observes that more research and better training is key. Concerns raised in part 1 are taken up in part 2, "Where Is YAL Now?," in which contributors, most of whom are or have been middle and high school English teachers, offer practical and scholarly methods on h
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