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Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature. Audience 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)
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Ch. 7 Young Adult Literature Audience 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)
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
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