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Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter
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Comics have gone from "scourge of the classroom" to legitimate teaching tools, and the Common Core State Standards for scholastic achievement now explicitly recommend their use in the classroom.
Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy. Highlights include George Washington: Action President by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, Doctor Sputnik: Man of Science by Roger Langridge, The Power of Print by Katie Cook, and many more.
Includes a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award-winning author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints).
A downloadable Teachers' Guide includes standards-correlated lesson plans customized to each story, research-based justifications for using comics in the classroom, a guide to establishing best classroom practices, and a comprehensive listing of educational resources.
Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy. Highlights include George Washington: Action President by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, Doctor Sputnik: Man of Science by Roger Langridge, The Power of Print by Katie Cook, and many more.
Includes a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award-winning author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints).
A downloadable Teachers' Guide includes standards-correlated lesson plans customized to each story, research-based justifications for using comics in the classroom, a guide to establishing best classroom practices, and a comprehensive listing of educational resources.
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Reviews for Reading With Pictures
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The thought of using a comic in the classroom fifteen years ago was almost unheard of. Batman and Superman? Used to teach kids about history? Psaw I say! Psaw! In recent years as readers have been exposed to works like John Lewis’s March trilogy though, educators have taken a second look and realized, maybe there’s more to comics than just superheroes. And maybe, just maybe they do fit into the classroom. One such person is Josh Elder, who in 2009 founded the nonprofit Reading With Pictures, which this book was born out of. First published with a kickstarter and later kept in print by Andrews McNeel Publishing.In this book, Elder and his colleagues have united some of the best creative talents to produce over a dozen short stories that can be used in the classroom that address topics across the board. Highlights include “The Power of Print” by Katie Cook and “The Black Brigade” by Chris Schweizer, as well as a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award winning author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and a downloadable Teacher’s Guide that includes lesson plans for each story, how to use them, and best classroom practices. This is one of those rare books that I would consider groundbreaking in its area. Not that there aren’t other books that talk about graphic novels in the classroom before this one, but this one is one of the first to use comics as a means of actually showing and telling the stories. As well as the fact that they recruited acclaimed artists and storytellers that are known for making comics that can be used in the classroom or have had other educational impact. Lastly, it is also the first (or one of the first as far as I can find) to be distributed by a major publishing house. As such, it an important stepping stone towards the future of using comics in education.The book is well put together with a great deal of thought gone into who to recruit to write the stories. While some comics are better than others, I think it was absolutely brilliant to ask Chris Schweizer (Crogan’s Adventures) to create a story for the history section and it is certainly one of my favorites in the book. Josh Elder also has done a great job of dividing the comics into different sections--mathematics, history, literature, and so on, so that educators can get a feel for what types of stories might work for their lesson plans. There are also multiple stories in each section to give different ideas and angles. My one criticism here is that I wish there was a page separating each story, as they start to run together which can make it hard in some places to differentiate between two comics, especially to a neophyte reader. The one other issue I have is something that helps, but also hurts. As I mentioned above this book was originally produced via Kickstarter and has subsequently been kept in print and published by Andrews McNell Publishing, which allows it to have a wider audience. However, something that bugs me a bit is that the included a page of advertising in the book for other AMP kids books. While the books aren’t bad, I would have preferred seeing it worked into the book somehow, such as comic using those characters or just an explanation of how those books meet the criteria that the book has been discussing. Overall, this book is good stepping stone for all future books that want to discuss how comics and education can work hand in hand and will hopefully lead to some exciting possibilities in the future.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A cool first volume of the Reading With Pictures project. It's got some of everything. Some funny stuff, some serious stuff, some educational stuff. Hopefully it can get into the hands of educators and help get the comics format into more classrooms.
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