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Ages 7-12
Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension
Terry Thompson
Comic books and graphic novels, known as ‘graphica’, have long been popular with teenagers and adults. Recently, graphica has grown in popularity with younger readers too, engaging some of the most reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts.
While many teachers have become curious about graphica's potential, some are confused by the overwhelming number of new titles and are unsure of its suitability and function in their classrooms.
This innovative book will help you learn how to use comics and graphic novels to motivate and engage your reluctant readers, and teach comprehension, vocabulary and fluency by exploring how skills for reading visual information can be transferred to text. It shows how to hook students onto reading using graphic novels across the curriculum.
- Photocopiable templates
- Numerous easy-to-replicate instructional strategies
- How to use graphica to help transfer comprehension strategies learned through comics and graphic novels to traditional texts.
- Sources of appropriate graphic novels for the classroom and for particular students.
2008 192pp paperback
978-1-57110-712-1
£29.99
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