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RWP Blog Series at Teach.com: Teaching Content With Comics
Throughout the month of August, Teach.com and Reading With Pictures are bringing you Comics in the Classroom, a blog series about using comics in education, including why graphic novels are complex texts as defined by the Common Core Standards, how to use graphic texts to teach in the content areas, how and where to find the best graphic texts, and more. Read the third post in this series: Teaching Content With Comics. In addition to teaching and strengthening literacy skills for all students, the comic format is a powerful tool for teaching content! Teach.com, from the USC Rossier School of Education, is a comprehensive resource for information on becoming […] Read More
RWP Blog Series at Teach.com: Comics as Educational Texts
Throughout the month of August, Teach.com and Reading With Pictures are bringing you Comics in the Classroom, a blog series about using comics in education, including why graphic novels are complex texts as defined by the Common Core Standards, how to use graphic texts to teach in the content areas, how and where to find the best graphic texts, and more. Teach.com, from the USC Rossier School of Education, is a comprehensive resource for information on becoming a great teacher in any state across the country. It provides state specific information on how to become a teacher, teacher salaries, teaching credentials, teacher certification tests, alternative teacher certification, […] Read More
RWP Blog Series at Teach.com: Comics in the Classroom
Throughout the month of August, Teach.com and Reading With Pictures are bringing you Comics in the Classroom, a blog series about using comics in education, including why graphic novels are complex texts as defined by the Common Core Standards, how to use graphic texts to teach in the content areas, how and where to find the best graphic texts, and more. Teach.com, from the USC Rossier School of Education, is a comprehensive resource for information on becoming a great teacher in any state across the country. It provides state specific information on how to become a teacher, teacher salaries, teaching credentials, teacher certification tests, alternative […] Read More
RWP at SDCC
Reading With Pictures held two exciting panels at San Diego Comic-Con. Thank you to everyone who attended! We appreciate your enthusiasm and support and hope you all had a fabulous time at Comic-Con. If you couldn’t be with us, here is some of what you missed. On Thursday, Tracy Edmunds moderated “Teaching Content Through Comics: Math, Science, and History.” Our great creator panelists were: — Jason Batterson, curriculum developer for Beast Academy, an elementary comics-based math curriculum — Geoffrey Golden, writer of the math comic “Probamon” for Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter and Nommons: Math Universe, math […] Read More
RWP at ALA: Librarians Love Comics and Graphic Novels!
At the American Library Association’s recent convention in Las Vegas, Reading With Pictures hosted the panel Comics That Make Kids Smarter. The panelists included: Josh Elder, founder and president of Reading With Pictures Andrea Colvin, Vice President/Content and Executive Producer for Andrews McMeel Publishing Jim McClain, middle school math teacher and creator of Solution Squad Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints, and The Shadow Hero Janet K. Lee, artist on Return of the Dapper Men, Jane Austen’s Emma, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey for Marvel Nathan Hale, creator of the series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales We […] Read More
Interview: The Understanding Rhetoric Team
Tracy Edmunds, Reading With Pictures Curriculum Manager Emerging research and practice are consistently proving the efficacy of graphic texts as teaching tools, but so far most of this work has been done with pre-existing texts not specifically created for the classroom. Now, a team of teachers and artists has tackled this challenge head-on by creating a graphic textbook specifically for use in college level composition courses. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing is an ambitious project and a groundbreaking work: “Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know — the writing process, critical […] Read More
Jonathan Hennessey on Graphic Novels, History and Education
The following guest post is from David Cutler’s Spin Education and is reposted with permission. You can access the original posting of David’s interview with Jonathan Hennessey at the original post at Spin Education. Since its release in 2008, I’ve assigned Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell’s The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation to my history and government students. A dynamic and effective mixture of art and narration brings the story of the Constitution to life, engaging students with visual literacy, which few champion as passionately as these two creators. “It always strikes me as supremely odd that high culture venerates the written word on the one hand, […] Read More
Happy Comics Out Loud! Day
One of our proudest achievements is launching Comics Out Loud!, a day where we celebrate comic books in the classroom. This year we’ve had over 500 educators pledge to join us in this celebration. They are in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Chile! We don’t want to stop there though. We want to celebrate comics in the classroom year round! Help us make that a reality by pledging to make Comics Out Loud! Year Round.
How Comics Enhance Learning
The following guest post is from David Cutler’s Spin Education and is reposted with permission. You can listen to audio of David’s interview with Bucky Carter at the original post at Spin Education. In Captain America: The Winter Solider, smashing the box office at a theater near your, a brainwashed, bionic arm-wielding “Bucky” squares off against the titular hero. As fate would have it, last week I spoke to another Bucky. But other than a shared name, this Bucky resembles not at all the villain portrayed on the silver screen. Then again, perhaps that’s not entirely true. Both are very involved with […] Read More
Eisner Nominations for Younger Readers
Today the nominees for the Eisner Awards, sometimes called the Academy Awards of comics, were announced. There are three categories recognizing work for younger readers. Congratulations to these very worthy nominees! Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7) Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas, by Philippe Coudray (TOON Books) The Big Wet Balloon, by Liniers (TOON Books) Itty Bitty Hellboy, by Art Baltazar and Franco (Dark Horse) Odd Duck, by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon (First Second) Otto’s Backwards Day, by Frank Cammuso (with Jay Lynch) (TOON Books) Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12) The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks (Dark Horse) […] Read More