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Back-to-School Reading Ideas for Grades 3-5
Today’s post is the second in our Summer Reading series from Reading With Pictures volunteer Rosemary Kiladitis. She is a longtime comic book reader, bibliophile, newly minted librarian, and mom of 3. She is a youth literacy advocate who loves reader’s advisory and thinks every classroom library deserves a graphic novel section. As summer vacation draws to a close and the kids return to school, there’s no reason to put the comics and graphic novels away – in fact, there’s more reason than ever to hit the bookstore and the library and add some of these great reads to your kids’ […] Read More
Comics in the Common Core at SDCC
At San Diego Comic-Con, Reading With Pictures presented “Integrating Comics into the Common Core” to a full house. Moderated by RWP founder, president, and Comics Ambassador Josh Elder, the panel had a wide-ranging discussion on how comics and graphic novels can be used to address Common Core Standards. Our sincere thanks to Gina Gagliano of First Second Books (http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/),Writer Geoffrey Golden (http://www.geoffreygolden.com/) and Editor Paul Morrissey of the math comic “Probamon: Gotta Know the Odds!” from the upcoming Graphic Textbook, and Anastasia Betts of Graphic Novels 101 (http://www.graphicnovels101.com/) for participating. Tracy Edmunds, Curriculum Resources Manager for RWP, explained how graphic […] Read More