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Developing and Field-Testing Instructional Materials
Community
Initiatives, Youth Education Scholars
With support from The Robert Bowne Foundation, the ILS recently completed a three-year
program for youth practitioners that focused on the exploration of children's and young
adult literature. In each year of the YES program, participants met over a 10-month period
to share, analyze, and discuss literature for children and young adults and develop ways
to use these texts and supporting activities in the context of after-school programs.
Using an inquiry process, they conducted individual studies of self-selected topics
related to the teaching of literature. At the end of each year, YES scholars contributed
to an informal publication consisting of an annotated bibliography, supplementary
resources, sample teaching activities, and essays describing their inquiry into children's
and young adult literature. A selection of inquiry narratives, extended annotations, and
the compiled annotated bibliographies will be published as a representation of the
three-year program.
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Adult Learning Center
& NYC Writing Project, Annotated Bibliography in Adolescent and Adult Literacy
With funding from The City University of New York, a team of Writing Project high school
teacher-consultants worked alongside a team of teachers from the Adult Learning Center to
identify commonalities and differences in the struggles faced by adolescent and adult
basic readers, share teaching approaches, and recommend texts and resources for each
other's student populations. The group developed an annotated bibliography which will be
posted on this website shortly.
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New York City Writing
Project, Literature For My Classroom: What's Out There?
The Writing Project organized and led three consecutive advanced summer institutes that
focused on literature for middle-school and high-school classrooms. Teachers identified
and read works of literature that might be appropriate for their students; researched
material in history and the arts to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of
these texts; prepare annotated references for these books and materials; and developed
classroom activities to support students in exploring the themes and issues suggested by
these texts. Activities were field-tested during the school year following each summer
institute. This work led to a resource guide, Literature for My Classroom: What's Out
There? This resource guide, distributed widely in New York City, has become the model
for similar volumes compiled by ILS staff in collaboration with groups of teachers.
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