Winner of a2024 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research

Helping today’s students extract new meaning from traditional texts is key to making young adult literature relevant and engaging. The digital era presents countless opportunities to read, write, and interpret young adult literature through a contemporary lens.

Building upon NCTE’s 2018Preparing Teachers with Knowledge of Children’s and Young Adult Literatureposition statement, the authors of this book spotlight how teachers and students can use digital tools and technologies to reread, rewrite, and restory young adult literature today. This book offers:

• Valuable teaching approaches to integrate shifts in textuality in the ELA classroom;

• Helpful resources for ELA educators for using participatory digital networks in their classrooms; and

• Strategies for restorying text selection with an eye toward multimodality, digital access, cultural diversity, and social justice.

The authors propose digital young adult literature and digital young adult culture as conceptual tools from which teachers can learn effective digital restorying practices. The result is young adult literature instruction that is more engaging and just.Principles in Practice imprint

105 pp. 2023. Grades 7–12