Teaching Literacy Skills To Adolescents Using Coretta Scott King Award Winners [Paperback]

This volume offers ready-made, standards-based, academically sound lessons and activities based on Coretta Scott King Award winning books.

Teaching Literacy Skills to Adolescents Using Coretta Scott King Award Winnershas everything teachers need to create lessons in core subjects using the very best of young-adult literature. It offers a rich compilation of classroom-proven reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for promoting strong literacy skills in adolescents.

Each chapter focuses on a Coretta Scott King Award winner, offering a selection from the text, a biographical sketch of the author, complete bibliographic information, an annotation, suggested grade level, and discussion questions. These are followed by a series of research-based reading and writing strategies for the book, plus activities in a reproducible format, all targeted to middle or high school grade levels. In addition to chapters on individual titles, the book includes an introductory section that explores the purpose and legacy of The Coretta Scott King Award, as well as the latest developments in literacy research.

This is a valuable addition to any school library or professional development library in a K-8 setting. ARBAonline

Fictional books in middle-school curricula frequently include works that do not reflect students' daily lives. This is especially true for racial minority students. In older works, people of color are often represented in circumstances that leave young readers unable to find a link to their own identities in the work. Carianne Bernadowski here offers a teaching guide using Coretta Scott King Award-winning books as the centerpiece of a midlc+