A QUICK LOOK
◈What is YA?
◈What are the Reading preferences and
behaviors of young adults (boys and girls)?
◈What challenges do we face as reading
advocates?
◈How do we respond to these challenges?
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CONTENT
Young protagonist
Teenager, or with
teenager’s perspectiveInitiation into adult world
Challenges
Entire spectrum of life
Post-
Apocalyptic/Dystopian
CHARACTERISTICS OF YA LITERATURE
FORMAT
Moderate length
First person POV
Series
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The Ordinary World
Call to Adventure
Refusal of the Call
Meeting of the Mentor
Crossing of the
Threshold
Tests, Allies, Enemies
HERO’S JOURNEYJOSEPH CAMPBELL
Approach
Ordeal
Reward
The Road Back
The Resurrection
Return with the Elixir
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THE HOBBIT
THE ORDINARY
WORLD
Bilbo is an
ordinary hobbit
from the Shire
ADVENTURE
He is
recruited to
be the thief
by the dwarfs.
REFUSALBilbo
initially did
not want to
go, he liked
his life at
the Shire.
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THE HOBBIT
MENTOR
Gandalf/Thorin
THRESHOLD
Bilbo catches
up with the
rest of the
dwarfs.
TESTS,
ALLIES,
ENEMIES
Bilbo finds
the ring
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THE HOBBIT
APPROACH
Bilbo and the
dwarfs face the
battle against
men, dwarfs, and
elves
ORDEAL
The final
battle
REWARD
Bilbo
leaves the
dwarfs
and
returns to
the Shire
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THE HOBBIT
RETURN
Bilbo returns to
the Shire and lives
his old life, with
the ring
ROAD
BACKBilbo raises
his nephew,
Frodo, and
writes his
book
RESURRECTION
Bilbo sees the
issue of the ring
with his nephew
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Harry PotterJK Rowling
Sorcerer’s Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half-Blood Prince
Deathly Hallows
DivergentVeronica Roth
Divergent
Insurgent
Allegiant
Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
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His Dark MaterialsPhillip Pullman
Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Percy JacksonRick Riordan
The Olympians
Heroes of Olympus
Trials of Apollo
Lord of the RingsJRR Tolkien
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Two Towers
Return of the King
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Artemis FowlEoin Colfer
Arctic Incident
Eternity Code
Opal Deception
Lost Colony
Time Paradox
Atlantis Complex
The Last Guardian
ACOTARSarah J. Maas
Thorns and Roses
Wings and Ruin
Mist and Fury
Wings and Embers
Ms. PeregrineRansom Riggs
Home for Peculiar Children
Hollow City
Library of Souls
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TRUTH OR FICTION?
◈Girls always read more than boys
◈Boys read more of non-fiction
◈Boys don’t like to read. At a certain age,
they stop reading.
What do you think?
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BOYS DO READ!
◈In the primary years, boys read as much
as girls do.
◈When they reach Middle School and on to
High School, the interest wanes a bit due to
additional activities and interests.
◈They read if they are inspired to do so.
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WHAT IS THE POINT?
◈Exposure to (varied) reading materials
encourages better literacy.
◈Reading makes one gain a better
perspective of the things around us.
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A DIFFERENT PLATFORM
Ziming Liu, San Jose California 2005
◈– With an increasing amount of time spent reading electronic
documents, a screen‐based reading behavior is emerging. The
screen‐based reading behavior is characterized by more time
spent on browsing and scanning, keyword spotting, one‐time
reading, non‐linear reading, and reading more selectively, while
less time is spent on in‐depth reading, and concentrated
reading. Decreasing sustained attention is also noted.
Annotating and highlighting while reading is a common activity
in the printed environment. However, this “traditional” pattern
has not yet migrated to the digital environment when people
read electronic documents. 29
TRADITIONAL OR DIGITAL?
Berkeley 2017
◈It’s our belief that it’s important to incorporate digital reading
(or e-reading) practices into our college curricula, even as we
do so with a critical eye. It may well be irresponsible to do
otherwise. Even if some of us continue to require our students
to read mostly in print for some years to come, the pressures of
the digital on the practice of reading will continue to bear, and
likely increase, in ways that everyone will have to deal with. As
Hayles notes, students are immersed in the digital already. As
college instructors, we need to help them to read in these
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Renaissance Learning Accelerated Readers
Program Survey 2014-2015
The study shows that students tend to choose books and
articles that are below their grade level. (That could be in part
because Accelerated Reader represents what they choose to
read, rather than what their teachers assign.)
On average, 12th graders chose books at a 7th grade level of
difficulty. Ninth graders chose books at the difficulty level that
would be expected for students midway through 5th grade. This
chart shows how rarely high school students choose to read
anything above a 9th grade level. Even by the time they're
seniors, only 19 percent of the books students choose to read
exceed the 9th grade level. 31
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR READING?
1. Click-bait: F pattern
2. Skimming and Scanning
3. TL, DR
4. Establishing a purpose for reading
5. Lengthy reads vs. Physical constraints
6. Distractions while reading
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WHAT IS READING?
1. Different types
2. Different skills
3. Different objectives
4. Different preferences
As long as they are reading (and
understanding), that’s great!
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IF YOU CAN’T AVOID IT, JOIN IT!
1. Emphasize the importance of a digital reading mindset
2. Help students to manage digital distractions while
reading and e-reading
3. Don’t assume traditional reading skills transfer to
digital reading
4. But many traditional reading
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OLD SCHOOL IS STILL BEST!
1. It is important to note sequence of
events.
2. Summarizing
3. Ask critical questions at every turn.
4. Reflection – WRITE!
5. Application – WRITE!
6. Action35
IF YOU CAN’T AVOID IT, JOIN IT!
5. Help students to develop reflective reading practices
6. Think carefully about how you’ll employ digital reading in and
out of the classroom
7. Remind students that reading, like writing, is a process
8. Vary reading strategies according to reading purposes and
environments
9. Discuss, model, and reinforce digital reading skills explicitly
10. Keep track of how you and your students read, and share
your findings!
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Most boys like to read
FICTION
YA (Chaos Walking!)
Manga
Classics
(Dostoyevsky)
Mystery
Science Fiction
Speculative Fiction
NON-FICTION
History
Treatise (Communist
Manifesto!)
Articles on Sports
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http://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/what-kids-want.htm
Some data
to help us
understand
this better.
39Scholastic
CHALLENGES
◈SUSTAIN! How do we follow up on what
was done in the primary grades?
◈INSPIRE! How do we encourage those
who are willing to read?
◈LINK! How do we capitalize on their
interests in order to lead them to read?
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THE REAL DEAL
◈INFORMATION OVERLOAD
◈TV-MOVIE-BOOK TIE-INS
◈READING OPTIONS
◈SHORT ATTENTION SPAN
◈DELINEATION BETWEEN YA AND
ADULT
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