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