Graphic Novels & Comics

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Comment by katie monnin on June 16, 2009 at 3:53pm

yes, peter i would also like to blog about it. this is a critical area of teaching early readers about image literacies and graphic novels. awesome work!

Comment by Brittany Pogue-Mohammed on June 16, 2009 at 3:19pm

Hi Guys-

This is great: http://www.kidjutsu.com/

Comment by Peter Gutierrez on June 16, 2009 at 12:07pm

Thanks very much, Bucky (and Katie and Nick for your comments). Not sure when Toon will post it on their Web site, but it might not be for a while, so it will probably be too late for your review; unfortunately, I don't think I myself can post anything since, as with most of the development work I do, I don't own the content after writing it.

Comment by James Bucky Carter on June 16, 2009 at 11:49am

Peter, I just got my review copy of _Little Mouse Gets Ready_. If you're going to post that LP online, drop me an e-mail with the link and I'll find a way to incorporate it into my review over at my blog.

Comment by katie monnin on June 15, 2009 at 8:08pm

oh, and everybody should check out the toon-books website. very useful. it is expanding in the near future too, and will greatly consider ESOL.

Comment by Nick Sousanis on June 15, 2009 at 7:28pm

Very cool, like where this discussion is going, and think of my own learning to read - so closely tied to comics. thanks,

Comment by katie monnin on June 15, 2009 at 6:03pm

peter! that is AWESOME! yea for you! i just had a phone chat with francoise mouly this afternoon, and we talked about just this thing!!!! and i would say that in kindergarten kids can read and write, just on a more emergent literacy level. they are more experimental with language, so just the right time to use early reader comics/graphic novels. introduce the format. would love to talk to you more about this work you are doing! cutting-edge, my friend :)

Comment by Peter Gutierrez on June 15, 2009 at 2:29pm

Just finished lesson plan for Jeff Smith's "Little Mouse Gets Ready" -- tricky because kindergarten and I'm more comfortable with kids who can read or write (at least a little).

Finally decided to go the oral language route since the book is really a monologue about the title character getting dressed: teacher reads book aloud, kids create a four-panel strip of themselves "getting ready" for something, then uses this comic as a prompt (for details, correct sequence, transitions) to speak in front of the class.

Hope this can be useful to others using comics with very young learners...

Comment by Ryan Goble on June 11, 2009 at 7:47pm

ahum, I meant "if you don't believe." sorry...

Comment by Ryan Goble on June 11, 2009 at 7:33pm

UPDATE, FOLLOW & SHARE!

Hey Everyone,

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Also, if you know that someone else might like the resource or discussion topic always feel free to click on "share" and the url will be shared with your co-teaching friend.

I say all this because I made an update to yesterday's No Girls Allowed post with an NPR story about another Union soldier who was a woman in disguise. You won't know about these additional resources or discussions unless you have clicked the "follow" button.

So if you really like a topic - "follow" :)

Hope everyone is groovy!

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