Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Grades 4-8Since todays young readers live in a highly visual world, its no surprise that graphic novels are growing in popularity. With this book, teachers can lead students in literary analysis of this unique genre, introduce them to good quality graphic novels, and encourage them to write and illustrate a graphic short story. Each lesson in the book is based on standards. |
Contents
Section 1 | 6 |
Section 2 | 8 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 14 |
Section 5 | 21 |
Section 6 | 23 |
Section 7 | 24 |
Section 8 | 28 |
Section 11 | 33 |
Section 12 | 34 |
Section 13 | 37 |
Section 14 | 38 |
Section 15 | 40 |
Section 16 | 41 |
Section 17 | 42 |
Section 18 | 45 |
Common terms and phrases
actors bicycle Black Beauty body language boxes Brainstorming build tension bursts Captain Hook cause and effect character wants character's chart Choose chosen graphic novel classic climax color comic books cont Damien Describe Description Dialogue and Narration Directions draw a picture exciting falling action feel first-person Flat characters graphic artist Graphic Author Biography graphic novel version graphic novelists graphic short story happens ideas illustrate Internet Janell kicker language and facial learned Little Women long-shot look main character Molly Movement and Sound narrator refers Nate novelists and artists Olympics onomatopoeia panel pencil perspective Peter Pan point of view polar bears Rising Action Round characters Round or Flat Sachi sensory details speech balloon symbols talk tell a story tell the story Tension and Suspense theme third-person thought clouds traditional novel True False type of conflict Vocabulary wide-angle frame Wizard of Oz words write a script