graphic novels for the classroom
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Using Graphic Novels (GNs) in the Classroom
What are GNs?
Text & images (not comic books)
Full-length stories
Fiction & non-fiction, age/grade level
Why use them?
Study genre itself Build critical
reading/thinking skills
Affinity groups/situated
learning Examine literary
elements
Popular & Fun
Multiliteracy theories of graphic novels
Linguistic
Visual
auditoryGestural
Spatial
Semiotic systems in graphic novels
Codes+conventions=meaning in graphic novels
Color,texture, lines, shapes,form
Balance, layout vectorality
Reader’s meaning
How to use graphic novels
Handouts#1 Comics terminology
#2 Practicing text-image relationships
#3 Graphic novels – in class activity
#4 Graphic novel activity – 2 part
#5 Selected resources
Thank you!