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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Family Issues » Read Now
by Joan F. Kaywell. 308 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Being literate increases a person's chances of enjoying good mental health, but many of today's teenagers come from backgrounds or circumstances that interfere with their literacy development. This unique resource for teachers, librarians, counselors and parents combines the expertise of two...
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Being literate increases a person's chances of enjoying good mental health, but many of today's teenagers come from backgrounds or circumstances that interfere with their literacy development. This unique resource for teachers, librarians, counselors and parents combines the expertise of two professionals: literacy experts and therapists. Together they provide guidance, through the examination and analysis of characters in young adult literature, to those working with troubled teens. Helping professionals and parents can gain insight into the inner workings of teenagers and encourage them to deal with their family issues and emotional problems while improving their reading and writing skills.
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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues » Read Now
by Cynthia Ann Bowman. 313 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of today's adolescents have become interwoven due to the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. Through appropriate literature, adolescents can find the power to heal and renew their lives. This reference...
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The traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of today's adolescents have become interwoven due to the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. Through appropriate literature, adolescents can find the power to heal and renew their lives. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels that can help adolescents struggling with health issues. Educators and therapists explore novels where common health issues are addressed in ways to captivate teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on encouraging adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills.
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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues » Read Now
by Jeffrey S. Kaplan. 216 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt, meant to help people discover themselves and who they are. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where...
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The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt, meant to help people discover themselves and who they are. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels and how to use them effectively. Educators and therapists explore the literature where common identity issues are addressed in ways intriguing to teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on how to encourage adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills.
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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues » Read Now
by Pamela S. Carroll. 259 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and how they develop as language users. This unique resource provides guidance to these professionals by pairing literacy specialists with counselors who...
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Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and how they develop as language users. This unique resource provides guidance to these professionals by pairing literacy specialists with counselors who introduce information about societal issues important to today's adolescents. These experts then explore literature in which issues such as: body image, sexuality, and leaving home are addressed in ways likely to interest teens. By examining fictional characters, these experts provide guidance to those working with teenagers, so they can encourage adolescents to deal with the conflicts and issues imposed upon them by our society while improving their reading and writing skills.
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From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics » Read Now
by Sarah K. Herz, Donald R. Gallo. 127 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

The literary classics that are traditionally required in grades 7-12 are often too complex and removed from adolescent experience. This highly readable guide, from a classroom teacher and one of the nation's leading authorities on young adult literature, shows teachers and school librarians how to...
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The literary classics that are traditionally required in grades 7-12 are often too complex and removed from adolescent experience. This highly readable guide, from a classroom teacher and one of the nation's leading authorities on young adult literature, shows teachers and school librarians how to use young adult literature as a bridge to the classics to help students become more critical and enthusiastic readers. Innovative thematic connectors link quality young adult novels, many of them multicultural, to the 12 most frequently taught works of literature. Extensive annotated lists of additional works of young adult literature complement each of these 12 classics. Herz and Gallo also show how young adult books can be incorporated into other subject classes.
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Growing into Literature: Adolescent's Literary Interpretation and Appreciation: The Authors Explore Adolescents' Growth in Appreciation and Interpretation of Literature, in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy » Read Now
by Joan L. Knickerbocker, James Rycik. 13 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...life of teenagers, I dont think these titles...goal is the study of literature. Few young adult books employ...almost always teenagers themselves. (p. 80...also argue that...
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Using Literature to Help Adolescents Cope with Problems, in Adolescence » Read Now
by John T. Pardeck. 7 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of problems and conflicts that arise in stepfamilies. Getzoff, Ann, McClenahan, Carolyn. Stepkids: A Survival Guide for Teenagers in Stepfamilies. New York: Walker, 1984...
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Nurturing Social and Emotional Development in Gifted Teenagers through Young Adult Literature, in Roeper Review » Read Now
by Thomas P. Hebert, Richard Kent. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Development in Gifted Teenagers Through Young Adult Literature. by Thomas...and issues facing teenagers. Although secondary English literature teachers have...
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Youth Suicide Prevention: Lessons from Literature » Read Now
by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 227 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...as hell" to understand why teenagers are committing suicide in...attention in the professional literature e.g., Brand 1980; Konopka...fate and see the two enamored...
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Opposing Censorship in the Public Schools: Religion, Morality, and Literature » Read Now
by June Edwards. 176 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...from his wife, a high school English teacher, the impact a good novel can have on the tempestuous emotions of teenagers. Literature, he noted, is not meant to be used as...
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A Literature-Based Approach to Teaching Values to Adolescents: Does It Work?, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Emily Stier Adler, Paula Foster. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...A literature-based approach to teaching values to...1993), with the reading of appropriate literature advocated as a useful technique to...1995:1). Advocacy of the use of a...
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Negotiating Meaning in Classroom Literature Discussions, in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy » Read Now
by Kathleen M. Carico. 9 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Negotiating meaning in classroom literature discussions. by Kathleen M. Carico...encouraged to share their responses to literature, certain hazards must be...
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland » Read Now
by Gary Westfahl. 164 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture as mirrors of what it means to...
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Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture as mirrors of what it means to grow up in the contemporary world. That world is permeated by technology, and technology thus figures prominently in the process of growing up and in these literary works. Included are chapters on Superman, the Hardy Boys, Star Trek, music videos, and other topics.
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Children's Literature, Past and Present: Is There a Future?, in PJE. Peabody Journal of Education » Read Now
by Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl M. Tomlinson. 25 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...The field of young adult literature as a separate and unique area...unrealistic portrayals of teenagers ( Krickeberg, 1995). How...published for these often-affluent...
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Who Reads Literature? The Future of the United States as a Nation of Readers » Read Now
by Nicholas Zill, Marianne Winglee. 124 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...WHO READS LITERATURE? WHO READS LITERATURE? The Future of the United States as a Nation of Readers...SEVEN LOCKS PRESS Cabin John, Md / Washington, DC Who Reads Literature?...