After spending a week reading two middle grades novels, Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds, I have found that middle grades novels are different than their Young Adult counterparts– but not necessarily in the ways you would expect. In some respects, middle grades novels are “easier” to readContinue reading “YA vs. Middle Grades Literature”
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YA Literacy and Literature
Write/share definitions of literacy and YA literature As we have been discussing in class, literacy is so much more than reading words on a page. Literacy encompasses our cultural awareness and understanding, our personal and professional relationships, even the way we choose to present ourselves through personal style. We “read a room” socially in theContinue reading “YA Literacy and Literature”
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