Novel Roles for Books: Promoting the Use of Young Adult Literature with Students at a School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

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Hallman, Heidi L

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Adolescent Literature

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Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

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Winter 2009

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ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume. 36, Issue. 2, Winter 2009, pp 18-26

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eng

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Through vignettes of poignant moments at Eastview and through interviews with Eastview students, I illustrate the ways that young adult literature influenced how teen mothers think about themselves as students, mothers, and adolescents. Because pregnant and parenting teens, as a population of students, have typically been "hidden" from mainstream education, little has been written about these teens' literacy and literacy development and how this, in turn, affects their identity. [...]in part, of Wendy Luttrell's (2003) and Wanda Pillow's (2004) research with pregnant teens, we do know that simple representations of the teenage mother are faulty and often present false unidirectional correlations between early childbearing and school/ economic success. Through such a view, one's "self," or identity, doesn't exist as an individually created entity, but rather is formed within a nexus of social relationships and affiliations. [...]one's identity, because of being situated within a social context, is subject to change over time. Book Choices that Students Spoke of as Reflecting "Authentic" Situations Students at Eastview had a central part in selecting the books they read and this proved to be an essential component of providing authentic literacy instruction for this population of students. Since we already know through extensive research (e.g., Gamoran, Nystrand, Berends, & LePore, 1995; Nystrand, Gamoran, Kachur, and Prendergast, 1997) that instruction for adolescents labeled as "low ability," or "at risk," tends to be less authentic than instruction for higher-achieving students, it is especially important that English language arts teachers strive to incorporate principles into their pedagogy and curriculum that allow students to be positioned as agents in their learning.

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Novel Roles for Books: Promoting the Use of Young Adult Literature with Students at a School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

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