Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary Ela Classroom

by Katie Monnin

Harness the power of graphic novels to promote literacy and engage all secondary students! Address print-text and image literacies, from navigating text features to creating standards-based lessons on reading comprehension, fiction/nonfiction, written response, critical thinking, and media literacy. Complete with examples from graphic novels, professional resource suggestions, strategies that can be used with any graphic novel, cross-indexes of middle and high school graphic novels and themes, reproducibles, and extra support for English-language learners.

Genres: Comics, Education

236 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay, but I found it to be incredibly repetitive. The organization of the book was confusing at times as well. Chapters 1, 2, and 4 were probably the most useful.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a lot of great ideas in this book. However, I find some of the graphic organizers and strategies to be confusing. I think I will probably have to reread some sections before using any of these strategies with my students. The most valuable part of the book for me will be the handouts about the different terms of the genre of graphic novels in the first chapter.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some useful information, but lots of redundancies within the book - same worksheet printed in three different places, etc. Didn't really add much to the conversation.