Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary ELA ClassroomHarness the power of graphic novels to promote literacy and engage all secondary students with Teaching Graphic Novels by Katie Monnin! Address print-text and image literacies, from navigating text features to creating standards-based lessons on reading comprehension, fiction/nonfiction, written response, critical thinking, and media literacy. Complete with examples from graphic novels, professional resource suggestions, strategies that can be used with any graphic novel, cross-indexes of middle and high school graphic novels and themes, reproducibles, and extra support for English-language learners. Teaching Graphic Novels was a finalist for both the 2009 ForeWord Education Book of the Year and the 2010 AEP Distinguished Achievement Award in the 6-8 Curriculum and Instruction category! |
Contents
Basic graphic novel vocabulary found in Chapter | 15 |
Teaching Reading Comprehension in High School | 27 |
Chapter 3Teaching Graphic Novel Fiction American Born Chinese by Gene Luan Yang | 39 |
Teaching Graphic Novel Fiction in High School ELA | 56 |
Chapter 4Teaching Graphic Novel Nonfiction | 67 |
Teaching Creative Nonfiction Graphic Novels in Middle School ELA | 78 |
Teaching Informational Nonfiction Graphic Novels in High School ELA | 88 |
Teaching Creative Nonfiction Graphic Novels in High School ELA | 95 |
The Literate Eye reading strategy | 149 |
v | 154 |
Supplement to the Literate Eye reading strategy for high school ELA students | 155 |
Nonfiction Collaboration StairStep Supplement middle school or high school | 162 |
Nonfiction Collaboration StairStep for High School Readers Appendix N Nonfiction Collaboration Journey for High School Readers Appendix O No... | 171 |
Graphic Novel Media and Me Reading and Responding to Printtext Literacies | 175 |
And the Meaning Is middle school ELA reading strategy for teaching media literacy | 188 |
Graphic Novel Media and Me Reading and Responding to Print and Image | 192 |
Chapter 5Teaching Media Literacy with Graphic Novels | 103 |
Teaching Media Literacy with Graphic Novels in Middle School ELA | 114 |
Chapter 6Some Suggestions for Teaching Graphic Novels to English Language Learners | 123 |
Teaching Emergent Language Learners with Early Reader Graphic Novels | 130 |
Three storymapping handouts for teaching reading comprehension with graphic | 139 |
If I Could Please Respond to This Graphic Novel reading strategy and writing | 207 |
Four stages of language learning objectives that support the use of graphic | 215 |
Graphic Novel Reference List for Middle School ELA Fiction | 221 |
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Common terms and phrases
American Born Chinese Appendix ask students Author Storytelling Capstone chapter characters comics compare and/or contrast Comprehending Graphic Novels creative nonfiction graphic creator critical-reading partnerships early reader graphic element and category element of nonfiction elements of story Emmanuel Guibert Event Map Panel example Eye reading strategy FALLING ACTION Figure graphic novel fiction Graphic Novel Media Graphic Novel Terminology handout high school ELA high school readers Hope Larson image literacies images and words Images Window informational nonfiction graphic KWL chart Laika language learners lens Lesson Idea Lewis Trondheim literacies and image literacy with graphic Literate Eye reading Mankato middle school Mount Horeb Nick Abadzis Nonfiction Collaboration Journey Nonfiction Collaboration Stair-Step nonfiction graphic novel Novels in High novels in middle persuasive writing print-text literacies reader graphic novels reading assignment RISING ACTION school ELA students Story Event Map teachers Teaching Graphic Novels teaching media literacy visual words and images words window writing activity York