Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature
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Ch. 7 Young Adult LiteratureAudience 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) 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)
Realistic YA Fiction
Body Biographies
Science
Multicultural Short Stories
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)
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
Examples
Examples
Teaching Strategies
Body Biographies
Dinner Party
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