Teaching Graphic Novels to Adolescent Multilingual (And All) Learners - Universal Design, Pedagogy, and Practice

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 school.

List of contents

Chapter 1: How Graphic Novels Can Be Used to Study Literature
and Social Studies Using Principles of Universal Curriculum Design
Chapter 2: Reading to Understand and Reveal Culture as a Way of Life
Chapter 3: The Complexity and Importance of Multimodal Texts
Chapter 4: Teaching Critical Literacy with Graphic Novels
Chapter 5: How Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do Might Motivate
Students to Read
Chapter 6: Scaffolding Canonical Literature with Graphic Novels
Chapter 7: Highlighting Symbolism with Graphic Novels
Chapter 8: Emphasizing Vocabulary Growth with Graphic Novels
Chapter 9: Enhancing and Academizing Student Discourse with Graphic Novels
Chapter 10: Noticing and Creating More Precise Language with Graphic Novels
Chapter 11:When Hands Are Tied: How Integrated Assignments
of Graphic Novels May Work
Index

About the author

Kristine Gritter is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Seattle Pacific University, USA, and has published extensively about reading instruction, selection of classroom texts, and student discourse focusing on literature.
Xu Bian is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Sunny Language Academy after serving as the Assistant Professor of Chinese at Seattle Pacific University, USA, from 2016 through 2023. She uses graphic novels as cultural and reading tools in her courses.
Deborah Van Duinen is the Arnold and Esther Sonneveldt Professor of Education at Hope College, USA, and has published extensively on community literacy practices.
Bill Boerman-Cornell is a Professor of Education at Trinity Christian College, USA, and has written multiple peer-reviewed articles and two books on teaching using graphic novels.

Summary

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 school.

Product details

• Authors: Xu Bian, Bill Boerman-Cornell, Kristine Gritter, Kristine (Seattle Pacific University Gritter, Gritter Kristine, Deborah Van Duinen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032254944
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225494-4
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Primary & middle schools, Moral & social purpose of education, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts