Teaching Young Adult Fiction: Articles and Links

Below are links to websites that offer insight and instruction on the teaching of young adult
fiction. They provide a criteria for selecting texts as well as methods for structuring course
materials.

Developing Students Critical Literacy: Exploring Identity Construction in Young Adult Fiction by Bean,
Thomas W. and Carol Moni.
https://resources.oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/mikuleck/Filemanager_Public_Files/L535/Unit_
6_Readings/Identity_and_Critical_Literacy_in_YA_lit.pdf

Syllabus for a Course called Teaching Young Adult Fiction at the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/yalit.cfm

Teaching Literature. This link takes you to a page on this site that provide additional links to other
sources that discuss teaching YA fiction in the classroom.
http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/ya.htm

Young Adult Literature in the English Curriculum Today: Classroom Teachers Speak Out by Gibbons,
Louell C. et. al. This is a pdf file of an article that discusses the hows and whys of teaching YA fiction.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v33n3/gibbons.pdf