Adventures in Graphica
Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Graphica is a medium of literature that integrates pictures and words and arranges them to tell a story or convey information, usually presented in a comic strip, periodical, or book form AKA comics. It's no surprise comics have long been popular with kids and adults; some of our greatest heroes were introduced to us in comic form. Drawing on his own success using graphica with elementary students, literacy coach Terry Thompson introduces reading teachers to this popular medium in Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, Grades 2-6. In his book, Thompson explains how graphica can be an engaging and motivating tool for reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts. He suggests sources of appropriate graphica for the classroom and demonstrates how to fit this medium into the literacy framework and correlates with best practices in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction.Adventures in Graphica contains numerous, easy-to-replicate, instructional strategies, including examples of how graphic texts can be used to create a bridge and students transfer abstract comprehension strategies learned through comics and graphic novels to traditional texts. It is an excellent roadmap for teachers looking to add graphica to their classrooms.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 You Got Comics?
- 2 The Lure of Graphica
- 3 A Word About the Research
- 4 Introducing the Conventions of Graphica
- 5 Endless Possibilities for Using Graphica
- 6 Comprehension, Comically
- 7 In the Mindâs Eye: Making Mental Images and Inferring
- 8 Vocabulary, Visually
- 9 Fluency in the Funnies
- 10 Making the Right Choices
- 11 Troubleshooting
- Afterword
- Appendixes
- References
- Index