SLM 504 - Literature for Young Adults

Credits: 3
This course presents new and outstanding titles in literature for young adults in grades sixth through twelfth. Topics include authors, fiction and nonfiction, literature and other media formats, principles of selection, using literature in the classroom, and reading for pleasure and lifelong learning. Candidates read books, discuss them in class, identify strategies for encouraging students to read, create an annotated bibliography of books appropriate for middle and high school students and present book talks with teens.