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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 generation readers who want to blur the boundaries between page and screen. This book has been updated to reflect the wealth of new YA literature that has been published since the first edition appeared in March 2012, and to reflect new trends in technology that influences how adolescents are reading and responding to literature.

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ISBN-13:	9781475829488
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	354
Sales rank:	969,092
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Judith A. Hayn is associate professor of English education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the chair of the NCTE Conference on English Education Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature and of SIGNAL, the Special Interest Group Network on Adolescent Literature for the International Reading Association. Hayn began her career in education as a middle and high school English language arts.
Jeffrey S. Kaplan is associate professor of English education at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Kaplan is President-Elect for ALAN, the Assembly for the Study of Literature for Adolescents. He is also the Research Connections Editor for the ALAN Review, a leading peer-reviewed journal on the study and teaching of young adult literature. Kaplan is a former middle and high school English Language Arts teacher.
Karina Clemmons, is an assistant professor of secondary education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has taught English for Speakers of Other Languages to middle school, high school and adult students in the United States and abroad.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I: Where Has YAL Been?

Young Adult Literature: Updating the Role of Research

Judith A. Hayn and Jay Cobern

Young Adult Literature Today: The Many Faces, Changes, and Challenges for Teachers and Researchers in the 21^st Century

Jeffrey S. Kaplan and Elsie Olan

Literacy Teacher Education Today and the Teaching of Young Adult Literature: Perspectives on Research and Implications for Practice

Susan E. Elliott-Johns
Section II: Where is YAL Now?

Young Adult Literature as the Sustaining Force: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Environmentalism

Kelly Byrne Bull and Jill Dupuis

Avid Readers in High School: Are They Reading for Pleasure?

Nance S. Wilson and Michelle J. Kelley

Is Poverty the Result of Poor Decisions? What Young Adult Literature Contributes to the Conversation

Crag Hill and Janine Darragh

Crossing Boundaries: Exploring the Fluidity of Sexuality and Gender in Young Adult Literature

Laura J. Renzi, Mark Letcher, and Kristin Miraglia

The Literary Community’s Definition: Balancing Creating and Updating Young Adult Literature Reading Lists While Retaining Quality Titles

Lisa A. Hazlett and William J. Sweeney

Civil Rights and Social Justice: Then and Now-How Much Progress Have We Made?

Barbara A. Ward, Deanna Day, and Terrell A. Young

Music and the Young Adult Novel: Assessing How Adolescents “Read” the Music of Their Lives

Steven T. Bickmore and Isaac Bickmore

Activism, Service-Learning, Social Awareness, and Young Adult Literature

Lois T. Stover, Jacqueline Back, and CJ Carver

Fat Female Protagonists in YAL and in Classrooms: Exploring the Impact of Anti-fat Bias on Identity

Linda T. Parsons

YAL and English Learners: Activating Funds of Knowledge

Karina R. Clemmons

Celebrating All Voices: Assuring Diversity in Young Adult Literature

James Blasingame and Wendy Williams
Section III: Where is YAL Going?

Exploding the Page: Digital, Multimodal, and Transmedia Young Adult Literature

Melanie Hundley and Teri Holbrook

Pushing the Edge of Possibility: A New Look at Integrating Technologies with Young Adult Literature Across Content Areas

Colleen Sheehy Mulholland

The Influence of the Internet and Social Media on Teens’ Engagement with Young Adult Literature

Melanie D. Koss

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Editorial Reviews

Recent research on the effects of time spent pleasure reading in youth demonstrate that it explains cognitive progress over time, educational attainment and social mobility. This makes pleasure reading a civil rights issue. And what better to hook students on reading then the books that were written specifically for them? In this volume, the top researchers and thinkers about YA literature explore where YAL has been, where it is and where it’s going, with rich models for how to use YAL to engage our students with the power of reading and all the benefits that then accrue to them.

In this book, the top researchers and thinkers in the field of YAL show us how to engage readers with this literature, and how to do so in a project of social action that promotes ethical imagination and the productive struggle for greater understanding, raised consciousness and for civil rights. This book is a must-read for librarians, teachers and anyone at all who cares about adolescents, reading, and promoting social understanding and justice.

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

This is a very useful text for both classroom teachers and teacher educators. Teachers will enjoy its practical aspects; whereas, professors will find relevance in the research data. More research is definitely needed to prove the merits of using adolescent literature in today’s schools, and this textbook definitely will help the cause.

Joan F. Kaywell

There are 'few' worthwhile books for teachers using YA literature. I am delighted to have this book.

Phyllis Fantauzzo

This book covers the ground in YA literature up to the present moment, and then plows new ground. The sections on research issues in YA literature fill a new niche in the professional literature, and one that sorely needed filling. More than anything, this book shows why teaching YA lit matters, and how to pursue it so it matters most. It also explores why researching its instructional use also matters. The connections of YA lit to 21st century literacy are astute and timely. Several chapters, on their own, are worth the price of the book.

Jeffrey Wilhelm

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 how to build student access to and interest in YAL, work around rigid curricula expectations and censorship threats, and embrace multiple literacies by using postmodern YAL and digital technologies in meaningful ways. A concluding section looks at where YAL is going. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

CHOICE

A much needed addition to the field of young adult literature. Respected young adult scholars address the changing face of young adult literature. Covering such topics as the role of research in the study of young adult literature, enhancing practice and inquiry, motivating young readers, identifying obstacles to teaching young adult literature, and the myriad emerging themes and topics, this text is a cutting edge addition to the field. A must for the young adult literature library!

Pam B. Cole

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 how to build student access to and interest in YAL, work around rigid curricula expectations and censorship threats, and embrace multiple literacies by using postmodern YAL and digital technologies in meaningful ways. A concluding section looks at where YAL is going. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

Choice

The first word that comes to mind is 'refreshing.' Using research and best practices, these editors have created a great companion text to the classic YA methods texts currently available. This text fills in the gaps previously unaddressed in other texts.

Joan Kaywell

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

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