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This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in science and math classes in order to promote literacy development while learning content.
List of contents
CHAPTER 1
Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies Using
Young Adult Literature
Julie Stepp
CHAPTER 2
Ship Breaker: Climate Change, Gene Splicing, and Coming of Age
Mike DiCicco and Chris Cook
CHAPTER 3
The Climate Crisis Gets Personal: Using The Carbon Diaries 2015 in
Earth Science
David Nurenberg and Ray Pavlik
CHAPTER 4
Hold Your Breath! Using Code Orange to Teach Biology through the History,
Nature, and Threat of Infectious Disease
Stephanie Wendt and Amber Spears
CHAPTER 5
Harnessing the Wind in Environmental Science: A Hands-On Approach
Jennifer Dail and Kimberly Warschaw
CHAPTER 6
The Chemy Called Al: Fantasy Meets Fact
Julie Baker and Kelly Moore
CHAPTER 7
Newton in the Battle Room: Reading Ender's Game in the Science Classroom
David Nurenberg and Jason Tong
CHAPTER 8
Closer than Imagined: Reading Singularity in Physics Class
Milton Huling and Patricia Daniel Jones
CHAPTER 9
Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of General Math
Sharon Kane and Christopher Kane
CHAPTER 10
Critical Literacy of Graphs: A Mathematical and Freirean Exploration of
An Abundance of Katherines
Roser Giné and Summer Clark
CHAPTER 11
Finding Solutions in Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
Holly Garrett Anthony and Janet Kesterson Isbell
CHAPTER 12
From Disenchanted to Intrigued: Unveiling the Number Devil's
Tricks in Precalculus and Calculus
Holly Garrett Anthony, Nancy Kolodziej, and Jennifer R. Meadows
CHAPTER 13
Training Mathletes through The Math Olympian
Calle Friesen and Shelia Remington Jones
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
About the author
Edited by Paula Greathouse; Joan F. Kaywell and Brooke Eisenbach
Summary
This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in science and math classes in order to promote literacy development while learning content.
