Bright Ideas Conference - Teaching with Graphic Novels

Hello everyone. I recently worked on a project for the NCTE Bright Ideas Conference about teaching with graphic novels. My co-collaborators were Danielle Peck, a fellow student in the secondary English program who will be interning at Waverly high school next year, and Samara Napolitan who will be working towards a master's degree soon. Together we created a website to encourage the use of graphic novels in the classroom. On the site are pedagogical reasons for teaching graphic novels, some basic vocabulary you would need to teach and discuss this kind of text, as well as three graphic novels from the three different grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school) and how they could connect to the Michigan State Standards. Please feel free to take a look, and if you have any questions or comments send them my way! If you are interested in teaching graphic novels, but need some advice about where to find a particular novel or even just ideas for different novels you can always contact me as well.

www.wix.com/daniellepeck/comics

Teaching Tool

I just discovered these books on CD which are produced by Full Cast Audio. Instead of the standard one person reading the whole book they have different voice actors to play the various roles. The one I'm currently listening to is Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar. I think this would be a great way to get kids to read or get them interested in books. Full Cast Audio only produces young adult/children literature. Below is a link to the website

Full Cast Audio