
Teaching Graphic Novels to Adolescent Multilingual (and All) Learners
Universal Design, Pedagogy, and Practice
- 196 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Teaching Graphic Novels to Adolescent Multilingual (and All) Learners
Universal Design, Pedagogy, and Practice
About this book
This book provides a roadmap for teaching with graphic novels as an effective and engaging approach to advancing reading comprehension for English Learners in secondary schools. Accessibly synthesizing and presenting existing graphic novel research, the authors walk through how to use graphic novels as a teaching tool to improve student motivation and key reading skills, increase their reading proficiency levels, and bolster their vocabulary. The authors provide curricular ideas for teaching multilingual, gifted, and striving readers, along with methods for developing critical literacy and multimodal comprehension. Applying a universal design approach and including examples, current graphic novel recommendations, and pedagogical strategies, this book is essential reading for pre-service teachers in TESOL and literacy education.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1 How Graphic Novels Can Be Used to Study Literature and Social Studies Using Principles of Universal Curriculum Design
- 2 Reading to Understand and Reveal Culture as a Way of Life
- 3 The Complexity and Importance of Multimodal Texts
- 4 Teaching Critical Literacy with Graphic Novels
- 5 How Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do Might Motivate Students to Read
- 6 Scaffolding Canonical Literature with Graphic Novels
- 7 Highlighting Symbolism with Graphic Novels
- 8 Emphasizing Vocabulary Growth with Graphic Novels
- 9 Enhancing and Developing Student Discourse with Graphic Novels
- 10 Noticing and Creating More Precise Language with Graphic Novels
- 11 When Hands Are Tied: How Integrated Assignments of Graphic Novels May Work
- Index