Chapter 6
The video “How do Adolescents develop?” explained developmental stages that every teenager goes through, with some regards to stages of becoming readers. The developmental aspects discussed were intellectual, moral, developmental, physical, and reader. The physical aspect is the puberty stage that teens go through, when they start questioning their physical bodies. It is important to incorporate books that are relatable to the aspects for teen readers to relate to. The Intellectual aspect is vital in knowing what kind of questions to ask your readers. Students in the age of 12-14 years old can comprehend more abstract questions; so, as the video mentions, it is important for teachers and librarians to think about the age group that your students are in when discussing literature.
When discussing the moral aspect, the video went into detail on Kohlberg’s theory and the three stages: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. Pre-conventional is seeing things as reward vs. punishment. The conventional stage is when one always follows the rules, whether it be in life or religion. The post-conventional stage is a bit harder for one to understand and can be a topic of discussion with students because it is knowing the rules/laws that they need to follow but also knowing when the rules/laws are wrong. The video gave a great example of this stage, being the civil rights movement of Rosa Parks not giving up her seat in the bus. Students may question Rosa Park’s motives and the significance of her breaking the law. I will keep this vital information in mind as a librarian so that I can offer books that can move the readers from one stage to another.
The video then goes into discussing the illustration of Dowelson Nilson’s reading cake. Reading for unconscious delight is when the reader gets lost in a book and enjoys serial reading (reading books by the same author or books of the same sub-genre). Reading autobiographically is when readers are able to relate to the story. They are reading books with characters that they can relate to, or as the video calls them, mirror books. Reading for vicarious experiences “allows us to see out”, as the video mentions. Reading vicariously can be done by reading books about experiences that the reader never experienced, or by simply reading fantasy, science fiction, or reading books about different places or times. The next tier is reading for philosophical speculation. These are books that the reader learns morals and values, and can sometimes be nonfiction books. The last tier discussed is reading for aesthetic experiences. This is reading for satisfaction, such as crying over the death of a character, or simply for the reading experience. As the video mentions, this is when the reader reads a book that is not about their life, but they are able to bring their life and experiences to the story by how the author makes them feel.
It is important that teachers and librarians find books that can take every reader into these tiers. As I read my books, I can think of these developmental stages discussed and the reading tiers to see if the book will be valuable to my students.
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