Graphic Novels: Gateways To Literacy

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"Our students grow up in a visual culture so they're used to taking in information that way but unlike other visual narrative... comics are what I call permanent. In a comic past present and future all sit side by side on the same page. This means that the rate of information flow is firmly in the hands of the reader. When my students didn't understand something in my comics lecturer they could just reread that passage as quickly or slowly as they needed; it was like I was giving them a remote control over the information." - Gene Luen Yang

Why comics belong in the classroom | Gene Yang | TEDxManhattanBeach

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⭐️ Indigenous teens ⭐️ Important conversations around poverty, drug abuse and treatment of indigenous cultures.

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🔎 Remove outliers. 🔎 Take a close, hard look at who is not reading.

🔎 Why? 🔎 What are the barriers? 🔎 What can I do to remove them?

I Was There American Dream by Malaka Gharib

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⭐️ &nbsp;Main character is first-generation American of Filipino and Egyptian descent ⭐️ Positive conversations to be had around immigration.

@jenniferlagarde @jennlagarde librarygirl.net jennifer@librarygirl.net

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⭐️ Superheroes of color ⭐️ Alternate history of life after Hurricane Katrina for the poor and marginalized.

"[As a student] I avoided traditional assigned texts like Romeo and Juliet or To Kill a Mockingbird, and instead would read Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes in bed at night. As a middle school teacher I used comics not only to reinforce literacy skills for my students but also to develop relationships with marginalized students that also didn't care about Romeo and Juliet." - Illya Kowalchuk

How Comic Books Can Transform Student Learning | Illya Kowalchuk | TEDxCU

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"The gateway drug to literacy" (And Inclusivity!)

The best format is the one that kids want to read!

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⭐️ Main characters of color. ⭐️ Juxtapose experience of character of color in both rural and urban communities.

"Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like – the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature – you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant." <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/14/neil-gaiman-children-books-reading-lecture">- Neil Gaiman </a>

Book snobbery has no place in our classroom or school libraries.

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✔️ Students READ graphic novels. They don't PRETEND to read. ✔️ Graphic novels make great common texts allowing teachers to facilitate students' application of reading strategies while clarifying trouble spots during what students see as a pleasurable reading experience. ✔️ Graphic novels are easier to reread, making it more likely that students will see reading as a constructive, recursive process. ✔️ Visuals add layers of meaning to text, allowing readers to consider elements beyond the simply decoding the literal meaning of the words on the page.

Adapted from The Graphic Novel Classroom by Maureen Bakis

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⭐️ Latinx characters featured as superheroes! ⭐️ Some scenes in both English and Spanish!

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⭐️&nbsp;Main character is first-generation Korean ⭐️ Positive conversations to be had around immigration.

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⭐️ Characters of Color ⭐️ Important discussion around code-switching and micro-aggressions

📚 Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people ages 10 -19. 📚 LGBTQ teens are 5 x more likely to attempt suicide and 3 x more likely to succeed.

✔️ Quotable images are easier to recall and locate in the text to cite when providing evidence to support analysis and interpretation. ✔️ Students must exercise more skill (reading images and text), not fewer, when reading graphic novels. ✔️ Graphic novels make the invisible visible, providing students with visual stories to connect with abstract literary devices. This scaffolding helps readers at all levels recognize these elements in traditional text.

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⭐️ Latinx Experience ⭐️ Disability Experience: Main character has multiple sclerosis

1. Let's Connect! 2. People Lose Their Way When They Lose Their Why. 3. Graphic Novels = REAL Readers! 4. Graphic Novels = Inclusive Collections! 5. Bring on The Books! 6. Further Reading and Resources! 7. End

A note about the title of this presentation: I chose the title as a nod to Art Spiegelman, the author of the acclaimed graphic novel, Maus, who said "comics are the gateway drug to literacy."

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⭐️ LGBTQ characters of color. ⭐️ Positive representation of bisexuality.

The finger-wagging and required reading lists of well-meaning teachers and parents can backfire, he says. Instead, Reynolds recommends books written in a "natural tongue," in comparative literature and the use of nontraditional materials — comic books and rap music, for example — "as a catalyst for literacy." - <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/he-didnt-read-books-as-a-kid-but-jason-reynolds-wants-to-make-sure-your-kids-do/2017/10/23/ed4b55da-9d4c-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html">Jason Reynolds</a>

Jason Reynolds on book haters

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⭐️ Micro Aggression ⭐️ The relationship between sports and race relations. ⭐️ Poverty/Privilege and school choice.

📚"<a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comic-Book-Reading%2C-Reading-Enjoyment%2C-and-Pleasure-Ujiie-Krashen/57a788d1c68b0fa37720cb6e595562eba8563820">[Kids who] read more comic books did more pleasure reading, liked to read more, and tended to read more books.</a>" 📚 "<a href="http://www.ijonte.org/FileUpload/ks63207/File/05.merc.pdf">When readers are able to integrate the information from the text and from the illustration, these two work as if the information was presented twice, thus enhancing comprehension for both high and low performing students.</a>”&nbsp; 📚 "<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306100244_Teaching_Vocabulary_with_Graphic_Novels">results suggest that graphic novels, a combination of visuals and text in a storyline, is more effective in teaching idiomatic expressions than in teaching them with traditional texts and activities.</a>" 📚 "<a href="https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-language-and-composition/classroom-resources/case-graphic-novels-ap-classroom">The graphic novel can make a difficult subject interesting and relatable, and is also an excellent way to teach complex concepts to higher-level students</a>" 📚 "<a href="https://blog.gemsworldacademy-chicago.com/blog/drawing-power-graphic-novels-as-gateways-to-literacy">The skills and learning tools that students gain from comic books and illustrated stories can also be applied to the rest of their curriculum and study of subjects like history, art, science</a>." 📚 "...<a href="https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5181&amp;context=hse_all">the use of graphic novels as a tool or scaffold can help language learners from the start by giving them a format that allows better memory retention and comprehension</a>."

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⭐️&nbsp;LGBTQ characters of color ⭐️ Important discussion of how views towards LGBTQ people have changed (and not) over time.

"People Lose Their Way When They Lose Their Why."

Challenge a social norm. Give voice to the voiceless. Seek to challenge the status quo.

Inclusive Collections Feature Books That...

Have a protagonist from an underrepresented or oppressed group.

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