How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught

A manual for teaching Young Adult Literature, this textbook presents perspectives and methods on how to organize and teach literature in engaging and inclusive ways that meet specific educational and programmatic goals. Each chapter is written by an expert and offers a rich and nuanced approach to teaching YA Literature through a distinct lens. The effective and creative ways to construct a course explored in this book include multimodal, historical, social justice, place-based approaches, and more.
The broad spectrum of topics covered in the text gives pre-service teachers and students a toolbox to select and apply methods of their choosing that support effective reading and writing instruction in their own contexts, motivate students, and foster meaningful conversations in the classroom. Chapters feature consistent sections for theory and practice, course structure, suggestions for activities and assessments, and takeaways for further discussion to facilitate easy implementation in the classroom. This book is an essential text for pre-service teachers of English as well as professors and scholars of Young Adult Literature.

Steven T. Bickmore is an Emeritus Professor of English Education at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He established the academic blog, Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday and is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014). T. Hunter Strickland is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Anderson University (South Carolina), USA. Stacy Graber is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of English Education at Youngstown State University, USA.

Dedications Editor and Contributor's Biographies Foreword by Crag Hill 1. Introduction by Steven T. Bickmore and T. Hunter Strickland 2. What We Learn from the Research on YAL Methods Syllabi by T. Hunter Strickland and Steven T. Bickmore 3. "You Gotta Know the Territory:" A Comprehensive Historical Approach to Teaching a Young Adult Literature Course by Chris Crowe and Kiri Case 4. From Hovering in the Margin to Taking Center Stage: Including YA in the English Methods Course by KaaVonia Hinton 5. Understanding the Value of Choice in the Young Adult Literature Methods Course by T. Hunter Strickland 6. A Social Action Approach to Young Adult Literature: Reading and Moving for Justice by Ashley Boyd and Janine J. Darragh 7. Teaching Young Adult Verse Novels: Creating Student Writers by Honoring the White Spaces by Melanie Hundley and Steven T. Bickmore 8. Teaching Graphic Novels: Form and Content by Stergios Botakis 9. Augmented Reading for Hyperconnected Youth: A Multimedia Approach to Young Adult Literature by Fawn Canady 10. Let Them Watch, Let Them Read, Let Them Choose: The YA Novel and Film Course by Gretchen Rumohr 11. Who is the "Young Adult" in Young Adult Literature? Critically Analyzing Conceptions of Adolescence in Texts Designed for Their Consumption by Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides 12. The Theory-Directed Syllabus: An Update on Teaching YAL through Critical Frameworks by Stacy Graber 13. Who We Are Where We Are: Reading and Teaching YAL Through a Place-Based Lens by Chea Parton 14. Teaching Young Adult Literature in the High School Classroom by Tista Owczarzak 15. Information Literacy and the Inclusive Classroom: Preparing Future Educators to Challenge Implicit Biases in Curriculum Materials by Amanda Melilli