Brooke Cunningham and Katie Thomas talk about the Youth Lens, a way of thinking about youth and their portrayal in literature complexly and applying that lens to the classroom.

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Text Complexity with Carol Jago Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7HkZzgFFc&noredirect=1

Youth Lens Theoretical Piece-

Petrone, R., Sarigianides, S. T., & Lewis, M. A. (2015). The youth lens: Analyzing adolescence/ts in literary texts. Journal of Literacy Research, 46(4), 506-533.

Youth Lens Application Piece-

Heron-Hruby, A., Trent, B., Haas, S., & Allen, Z. C. (2015). Using a youth lens to facilitate literary interpretation for "struggling" readers. English Journal, 104(3), 54-60.