Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom

Use graphic novels to promote literacy with standards-based strategies that engage secondary students. From navigating the text features to creating standards-based lessons on reading comprehension, fiction and non-fiction, written response, critical thinking, and media literacy, Teaching Graphic Novels shows secondary language arts teachers how to address print-text and image literacies while engaging readers.

Complete with examples from graphic novels, professional resource suggestions, strategies that can be used with any graphic novel, and extra support for English-language learners.