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Moving Our Can(n)ons: Toward an Appreciation of Multimodal Texts in the Classroom
Author(s) -
Jiménez Laura M.,
Roberts Kathryn L.,
Brugar Kristy A.,
Meyer Carla K.,
Waito Kim
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1630
Subject(s) - popularity , class (philosophy) , mathematics education , teaching method , leverage (statistics) , psychology , graphic arts , language arts , pedagogy , computer science , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , social psychology
The growing popularity of graphic novels for younger readers is hard to miss. This article provides specific ways to think about, recognize, and teach with multimodal texts that leverage student interest. In this English language arts unit, we taught a sixth‐grade class how to read and comprehend the complex design elements common to the graphic novel form. The class used both student‐selected graphic novels made available to them by the researchers and a whole‐class graphic novel, One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale. Teaching students how to effectively comprehend graphic novels is much like teaching anything: By identifying the content and strategies that need to be taught, we then identified the corresponding teaching strategies needed. This article reports on the content and strategies, specific ways to help students come to a greater understanding of the text in hand, and graphic novels as a literary form.