YA+Literature+in+Classrooms

There are a few vital factors to ponder if wanting to implement YA literature in your classroom.
 * YA Literature in Classrooms **
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﻿I. View Literature as Entertaining and Challenging
 * 1) ﻿Teachers must provide a balance between the value of the literature and the interests' of the students.
 * 2) Teachers need to promote students to think critically about what they read.

﻿II. B ecome Recognizable With a Variety of Literature
 * 1) This will help teachers plan better reading units.
 * 2) Teachers will be able to offer suggestions that spark their students' interests.
 * 3) Teachers wil be able to converse with their students and perhaps learn something new from them.
 * 4) This will help teachers feel more confident as a teacher as well as more comfortable recommending books to students.

﻿III. Sharing YA Literature with Your Students
 * 1) ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿Teachers need to do read alouds which will peek their curiosity, fascinate, and stimulate your students.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers need to model passion and gratitude toward literature.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers should read alongside their students during independent reading.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers should share their personal reading material with students so they can see the importance of reading.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿**YA Literature Program**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provides students with an opportunity to enjoy books
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Must provide good quality and quantity of literature
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teaches students to decipher literature
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">build on literary knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers must model reverence, eagerness, and appreciation of novels

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">An example to apply in the literature program is a booktalk. During a booktalk, students discuss their book in a way that persuades others to want to read it. The presenter teases the listeners with just enough information that makes them want to read it more.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿**Literature-Based Instruction Throughout the Curriculum** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Basically this section entails using YA literature in place of or in addition to regular textbooks. Teachers correspond the curriculum objectives with YA literature to guarantee students learn content area concepts.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The main goal is to absorb as much YA literature into the curriculum to help students truly make connections with the content.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">As cited by Bucher and Manning (2006), students obtain the following benefits of reading YA literature:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">learn content material in all curricular areas and learn to identify meanings in what they read;
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">discover knowledge and make meaning by examining age-appropriate problems, values, issues, and concerns;
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">reinforce other language skills including talking, writing, and listening;
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">respond, analyze, synthesize, and organize ideas in meaningful content; and
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">read and write often about their thoughts and ideas rather than simply concentrating on the mastery of facts and concepts in a given subject.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿**Thematic Literature Studies** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers can employ insight to a single theme by selecting various levels of books that speak about the same chosen theme. This will help students make connections with books at their independent reading level and at the same time among other leveled books read by other students.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿**Book Discussions** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Discussions can be instrumental as whole-class, literature circles, or one-on-one conversations.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">These discussions encourages students to think about what they read.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overall, the reasoning for promoting YA literature in classrooms is to develop a community of readers which students can experience as they read different literature for different content areas.

//<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Ms. Castillo's students reading National Geographic magazines. //