Teaching Literacy Skills to Adolescents Using Coretta Scott King Award Winners

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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 Winners has 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.

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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 middle school reading curriculum. The book provides background information for each title, course and study suggestions, and tools for assessing the skills and comprehension of the students. It is hoped, by presenting literature that more closely relates to their own lives, students will find greater comfort and reward by reading more literature. * Reference & Research Book News *
This book would be a great professional resource, and a must have for those educators that teach adolescents. Highly recommended. * Library Media Connection *
Educators who want to introduce their students to stories with African American characters will find this a highly useful resource. * Catholic Library World *

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Carianne Bernadowski is assistant professor of education at Robert Morris University. She is coauthor, with Patricia Liotta Kolencik of Praeger's Teaching with Books that Heal: Authentic Literature and Literacy Strategies to Help Children Cope with Everyday Problems.