Full Description
The ultimate guide for using graphic novels in any middle school or high school classroom, this book considers how the graphic novel format can support critical thinking and help reach disciplinary goals in history, English language arts, science, math, fine arts, and other subjects. Using specific graphic novels as examples, this book considers how to help students read, question, and write about both fiction and non-fiction. Whether teachers are new to graphic novels or have been working with them for years, this book will help improve instruction.
Chapters ell us how to teach with graphic novels, focusing on how disciplinary literacy can inform graphic novel instruction; how readers should consider text, image, and the intersection of the two when reading a graphic novel; and how graphic novels can encourage critical response and interdisciplinary instruction. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate important teaching concepts with examples from recent graphic novels. Appendices offer recommendations of graphic novels ideal for different disciplines. Teachers who are serious about using graphic novels effectively in the classroom will find this book invaluable.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1- Introduction: Can Graphic Novels Save the World?
Chapter 2- The Role of Disciplinary Literacy for Teaching with Graphic Novels
Chapter 3- What are Graphic Novels? How do they Work? Why would Teachers Want to Use Them Anyway? What is the Best Way to Teach with Them?
Chapter 4- Graphic Novels in Teaching Academic Disciplines
Chapter 5- Using Graphic Novels in the Humanities
Chapter 6- Picture/Text Hybridity
Chapter 7- Disciplinary Inquiry Using Graphic Novels
Chapter 8- Critical Response
Chapter 9- Themes, Interdisciplinary Instruction and Graphic Novels
Chapter 10- Putting it all Together: Using Graphic Novels to Support Disciplinary Literacies Instruction
