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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. Chapters are co-authored, pairing content experts with literacy experts, to ensure that both content and literacy standards are met in each approach. Each chapter spotlights the reading of one YA novel, and offer pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific content topic, readers will discover the many opportunities reading YA literature in the content area has in encouraging cross-disciplinary study.
List of contents
CHAPTER 1Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies UsingYoung Adult LiteratureJulie Stepp CHAPTER 2 Ship Breaker: Climate Change, Gene Splicing, and Coming of AgeMike DiCicco and Chris Cook CHAPTER 3The Climate Crisis Gets Personal: Using The Carbon Diaries 2015 in Earth ScienceDavid Nurenberg and Ray PavlikCHAPTER 4Hold Your Breath! Using Code Orange to Teach Biology through the History,Nature, and Threat of Infectious DiseaseStephanie Wendt and Amber Spears CHAPTER 5Harnessing the Wind in Environmental Science: A Hands-On ApproachJennifer Dail and Kimberly Warschaw CHAPTER 6The Chemy Called Al: Fantasy Meets FactJulie Baker and Kelly MooreCHAPTER 7Newton in the Battle Room: Reading Ender's Game in the Science ClassroomDavid Nurenberg and Jason Tong CHAPTER 8Closer than Imagined: Reading Singularity in Physics ClassMilton Huling and Patricia Daniel Jones
CHAPTER 9
Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of General Math
Sharon Kane and Christopher Kane
CHAPTER 10Critical Literacy of Graphs: A Mathematical and Freirean Exploration of An Abundance of KatherinesRoser Giné and Summer Clark
CHAPTER 11Finding Solutions in Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and AlgebraHolly Garrett Anthony and Janet Kesterson Isbell CHAPTER 12From Disenchanted to Intrigued: Unveiling the Number Devil's Tricks in Precalculus and CalculusHolly 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
Paula Greathouse, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at the University of West Florida where she works in the doctoral program. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Joan F. Kaywell is professor of secondary English Education at the University of South Florida. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) and recognized as the original proponent of using Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics.Brooke Eisenbach is a former middle school teacher and current associate professor of middle and secondary education at Lesley University where she teaches courses in young adult literature, as well as middle school and high school methods of instruction Jason S. Frydman is a nationally certified school psychologist, registered drama therapist, and assistant professor of psychology at Lesley University. His research focuses on trauma-informed programming in educational settings and school-based creative arts therapies.
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.
