Integrating Literature in the Content Areas: Enhancing Adolescent Learning and Literacy

This practical, accessible resource will help content area teachers integrate children's and young adult literature into middle school or high school classrooms, while addressing content area standards and improving the literacy skills of students. Two introductory chapters are followed by five chapters that each cover a different genre: informational books; fiction; biography, autobiography, and memoir; poetry; and how-to and hands-on books. The four parts in each genre chapter present a rationale for using the genre to further content learning and enhance literacy skills; offer hands-on instructional strategies and activities designed to use literature in a variety of disciplines; present individual author studies with bibliographies and guidelines for using the authors books; and feature an annotated bibliography of specially selected fiction and nonfiction literature for children and young adults, organized by content area.