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Peer reviewedAlvermann, Donna E.; Heron, Alison H. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Suggests that learning more about what draws adolescents to particular texts and practices can help teachers to facilitate literacy events that are meaningful to students. Concludes that, by allowing youth's ways of constructing meaning and identity to inform academic practices, play becomes a fruitful endeavor both in and outside of classrooms.…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Literacy, Mass Media Role, Popular Culture
