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- 1. Does this ever happento you
- 2. Ok, class. Todaywe are going to discuss...
- 3. Um......excuse me. Can you please pay attention?
- 4.
- 5. What is THATyou are reading exactly?
- 6. Oh, a graphicnovel.
- 7. Am I notinteresting enough?
- 8. Ever wonder howyou can engage your students through reading?
- 9.
- 10.
- 11.
- 12. There is away to engage ALL of your students.
- 13.
- 14. Interested? ???
- 15.
- 16.
- 17.
- 18. ?? Aren't graphic novelsand comics the same thing?
- 20. Graphic novels area format that uses sequential art to tell a story.
- 21. Will Eisner popularized the termafter he published:
- 22. Comics are... a magazine devoted to comic strips.
- 23. Ok, but whyuse them?
- 24. "Reading light materials, suchas comic books, is the way many students develop a taste for reading." (Krashen, 2004)
- 25.
- 26.
- 27. Graphic novels contain 20%MORE rare vocabulary than a typical chapter book. (Krashen, 1993)
- 28. They help reluctantreaders, well....start reading!
- 29. Graphic novels contain 40%MORE vocabulary than a typical conversation between a child and an adult. (Krashen, 1993)
- 30.
- 31. Do they actuallycount as reading?
- 32.
- 33. All reading is goodreading.
- 34. But, aren't graphicnovels only about superheroes?
- 36. Graphic novels have avariety of themes. For example...
- 37. & have characters travelingto different worlds.
- 38.
- 39. Rea d!
- 40. An unimmi ive g for rsa rant be l se 's lon gin arch g.
- 41. "...comics are justas sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books..." (Science Daily,2009)
- 42. Ok, I getit! You LOVE graphic novels.
- 43. wh at B ut, the ay? es h s do se arc re
- 44. A 1992 studyof more than 200,000 students...
- 45.
- 46.
- 47. ...revealed that Finland
- 48. has a 99%literacy rate!
- 49. They also havethe highest proportion of comic book reading students.
- 50.
- 51.
- 52.
- 53. The U.S. MilitaryAcademy at West Point
- 54. requires that ALLcadets read:
- 56. ...before they graduate. (Foroohar, 2005)
- 57. Maybe I shouldrethink my literacy instruction.
- 58. I'm not sayingyou should replace EVERYTHING with graphic novels.
- 59. Just consider itanother tool.
- 60.
- 61.
- 62. Even if itmeans using:
- 63. m e) so (an aw e Graphic Novel!
- 64. Works Cited: Brunnel, V.,& Linnakyla, P. (1994). Swedish speakers' literacy in the Finnish society. Journal of Reading, 37(5), pp. 368-375. Foroohar, R. (2005, August 25) Comic Relief. Newsweek, 146(8), 50-54. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com Krashen, Stephen D. 2004. The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Krashen, Stephen D. 1993. The Power of Reading. Englewood: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. McCloud, S. (2006). Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels. New York: Harper. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009, November 5). For Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics Is No Child's Play. Science Daily. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com
- 65. Images Cited: Corlett, M.L.,Fine, R.E., & Lichenstein, R. (2002). The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948-1997. Hudson Hills Press. Eisner, Will. A Contract with God And Other Tenement Stories. W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. Kibuishi, Kazu. The Stonekeeper (Amulet, Book 1). GRAPHIX, 2008. Moore, Alan. The Watchmen. DC Comics, 1995. Tan, Shaun. The Arrival. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007. Telgemeier, Raina. Smile. GRAPHIX, 2010. Tennapel, Doug. Ghostopolis. GRAPHIX, 2010. All other images are care of Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Harvey Comics Creative Commons Licensing.