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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pamela Burress Cole |
ISBN: | 9780073525938 0073525936 |
OCLC Number: | 226356673 |
Description: | xviii, 702 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Adolescence : defining moments -- The young adult reader -- Trends and issues in young adult literature -- Realistic fiction (reading skill : making connections) -- Romance, humor, and sports (reading skill : questioning) -- Historical fiction (reading skills : monitoring and clarifying) -- Mysteries, thrillers, and horror (reading skills : inferential thinking and predicting) -- Science fiction and fantasy (reading skills : visualizing and vocabulary) -- Short stories, poetry, and drama (reading skill : building fluency) -- Nonfiction, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, and memoirs (reading skills : text structure and summarizing) -- The classical canon and young adult literature (reading skill : synthesizing) -- The popular culture influence / by Faith H. Wallace -- YA literature and writing : motivating young writers in the real world / by James Blasingame. |
Other Titles: | Young adult literature in the twenty-first century |
Responsibility: | Pam B. Cole. |
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Abstract:
A literature survey modeling how to teach literature and reading to middle school and high school students. It helps teachers familiarize with the reading process of teens, discusses teen attitudes toward reading, and examines their interests and reading abilities. It also includes genre chapters that discuss genre characteristics and themes.
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