Teaching the Common Core: Responding to Young Adult Literature: A Motivational Perspective

This article discusses motivating young students to respond to literature in creative ways. The authors begin by describing how motivation influences readers and—how teaching students to use multiple representations of thinking can motivate them to read. Next, they present four performance projects in which middle level—students readily engage: first-person author studies, form poems, lyric summaries, and transmediations. They then detail each project and provide classroom—examples to support its use. Student examples throughout the article are based on both classic and contemporary young adult titles. Finally, they connect the four—projects to the Common Core State Standards.