A Multimodal Assignment That Enriches Literacy Learning The Problem by Tim Oldakowski, EdD

“…This article demonstrates the value of multimodal learning (the use of more than one mode) as a means for student expression, specifically in responding to young adult literature. Here, I share how students had rich interpretations of a text through the use multiple modes.…”
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A Multimodal Assignment That Enriches Literacy Learning The Problem by Timothy Oldakowski

“…This article demonstrates the value of multimodal learning (the use of more than one mode) as a means for student expression, specifically in responding to young adult literature. Here, I share how students had rich interpretations of a text through the use multiple modes.…”
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Afro-Latin@ Representation in Youth Literature: Affirming Afro-Latin@ Cultural Identity by Ada Malcioln Martin

“…This essay focuses specifically on Afro-Latin@ identity in the United States and the role Afro-Latin@ representation in children’s and young adult literature can play in shaping Afro-Latin@ feelings regarding race and cultural heritage, and in constructing and affirming self-identity and feelings of self-worth.…”
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The feminist movement and children’s literary criticism in Galicia: a cartography by Montserrat Pena Presas

“…Normally, we do not refer to children’s and young adult literature as an area influenced by the feminist movement. …”
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The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry’s The Giver by Ari Setyorini, Serwana Idris

“…This article attempts to portray how a contemporary young adult literature entitled The Giver (Lowry, 1993) illustrates the operation of state apparatus in a dystopian setting of time and place. …”
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Writing Personal Trauma in Young Adult Fiction: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy and Siobhan Dowd’s Solace of the Road by Šárka Bubíková

“…It also deals with the textual means of writing trauma and reflects on the category of young adult literature under which both novels were marketed, arguing why Zephaniah’s novel fits the category while Dowd’s can be seen as a crossover novel. …”
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Reading Rick Riordan'S Sea Of Monsters Using Propp'S Theory Of Narratology by Khaksari, Mahta

“…Due to the significance of the contemporary young adult literature (YAL) in conveying values and literary information to young readers, and because such texts appeal to young adults (YA) more than the classics, the present research aims to investigate the structure of modem mythology texts systematically to see whether they match the classics in terms of complexity of structure and conveyed values or not. …”
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The Category Is “Pandemic Queer”: Reading, Connecting, and Reimagining Literacy with LGBTQ+ Youth in the Age of COVID-19 by shea wesley martin, Henry “Cody” Miller

“…This article details how we structured a community of readers who worked to analyze young adult literature through intersectional and anti-oppressive lenses (Blackburn & Smith, 2010; Durand, 2015; Herman-Wilmarth & Ryan, 2015), deepen their critical consciousness relating to contemporary LGBTQ socio-political topics (Kelly & Currie, 2020), and leveraged social media and online avenues to construct community that expanded the boundaries of school hallways (Lucero, 2017; Mayo, 2014). …”
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Recuerdos LIJ-ados: memoria de la guerra civil española en la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil del siglo XXI / CYAL-worn memories: memory of the Spanish Civil War in 21st century chil... by Rafael Negrete-Portillo

“…Abstract This paper proposes a dual research: on the one hand, to offer a panoramic view of how the memory of the Spanish Civil War is transmitted in children's and young adult's literature of our times, paying special attention to the technical narrative structure and the chronotope. …”
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Irish Girlhood and Female Sexuality in Claire Hennessy’s Like Other Girls by Iria Seijas-Pérez

“…In recent years, the success of Irish female authors and the increase of Irish Young Adult literature publications have contributed to a wider recognition of narratives of girlhood. …”
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Female Graduate Students on Masculinity: “His girly characteristics worried me and my husband” by Mateus Yumarnamto

“…In the forum the students are required to respond to the weekly readings, especially the ones related to children and young adult literature. This study is aimed at understanding how masculinity discourses are presented by the members of the forum. …”
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Diversifying Understandings of Diversity by Lydia Kokkola, Sara Van Den Bossche

“…This is a position paper by the guest editors of the Barnboken theme “Diversity in Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature” in which we propose that theorising and promoting diversity in the Nordic context would benefit from a broadening of the approaches that dominate the British and American contexts. …”
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Poetry and prose as methodology: A synergy of knowing by Linda T Parsons, Lisa Pinkerton

“…A content analysis of young adult literature featuring trafficked child soldiers is the vehicle through which we advocate for the simultaneous use of prose and poetry. …”
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Representative Library Collections as a Response to the Institutional Oppression of LGBTQ Youth of Color by Jeanie Austin

“…It begins with the synthesis of ongoing campaigns for greater diversity in young adult literature; critical theoretical approaches to race, gender, and sexuality; and the needs identified by adults working for a critically situated community drop-in youth center for LGBTQ youth. …”
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The Spanish Civil War and the Catalan Young Adult Narrative: Testimony And Literature by Caterina Valriu

“…<p>The historical novel has been a highly cultivated genre in Catalan Young Adult Literature, but until the end of the 20th century, the topic of the Spanish Civil War  was little dealt with. …”
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Queer Connections and Fostering Inclusion: Reflections on Qualitative Focus Group Design by David Betts, Annika Herb

“…Reflecting on a research study that explored the impact of queer representation in young adult literature on young readers, the paper explores the concepts of building queer connections and fostering inclusion as methods to support qualitative research design. …”
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Grado de adaptación en las traducciones de “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Ismael Lemus Montaño

“…A la hora de traducir obras como Alicia en el país de las maravillas, de Lewis Carroll, los traductores pueden llegar a crear dos o más textos meta diferentes, dependiendo de las características de los lectores de la lengua meta, y ello necesariamente supone una reflexión sobre la difusa frontera entre las dos categorías de literatura.Summary: The distinctions between children’s literature and young-adult literature are often flexible and loosely defined. …”
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Fantastic literature and young adult identity: evil and death as motifs for the young man’s quest by Isabel Jerez Martínez, Amando López Valero

“…In this contribution, we deal with the concept of evil, as well as with the concept of death using two texts which belong to Young adult literature. The text written by Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earth Sea, will allow us to see from an anthropological point of view, a development process, because Ged de Gont, must go through different proves that take place at this stage of life. …”
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The essential "Star Wars"Philip Pullman's baroque aesthetics by Jean Perrot

“…This essay has a twofold purpose: to consider the issues of contemporary Young Adult literature addressed to “the children of the videosphere” within the context of globalized culture and to assess the importance of postmodern Baroque aesthetics in the “Star Wars” system of modern Letters and mass-media. …”
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Kuidas Soomes, Ann? Aidi Valliku noorsooraamatute retseptsioonist Soomes by Ele Süvalep

“…The introductory part touches upon the concepts of young adult literature and youth literature and, briefly, upon some specific traits of youth literature which are important from the perspective of translation and reception. …”
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