How do adolescents develop? 

Physical Development –Puberty: Their bodies changing. Normality. Children focus on their development intensely. We should assure them they are normal.

Intellectual: Piaget teaches us how students grow through the stages. Transition from concrete to formal thinking.

Developmental: Learning to get along, Easy relationship with the opposite sex, working for pay, changing relationship with parents, Developing morals and values, Adapting to physical bodies, and defining appropriate sex roles. Seek for peers that share same things they like. Grouping based on mutual interests.

Morals:  Kohlberg’s Theory- Levels Preconventional, Conventional, and Post-conventional. 

 Preconventional: Children behavior deals with reward and punishments. Adults do the same. 

Conventional: Follow the rules regardless. Post-conventional: Putting others before ourselves. Books that students can read that will help them move from current stage they are at to another.

Developing as Readers: The stages a person goes through as they read. Getting lost in a book. Reading autobiographically read about people like us. Reading for vicarious experiences windows that allow us to see out. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Reading for philosophical speculation is found in nonfiction. Feelings are concerned. Reading for aesthetic experiences is just for the love of reading.