Synopses & Reviews
Comics make learning fun!
Comics have gone from "scourge of the classroom" to legitimate teaching tools, and the Common Core State Standards for scholastic achievement now explicitly recommend their use in the classroom.
Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy. Highlights include George Washington: Action President by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, Doctor Sputnik: Man of Science by Roger Langridge, The Power of Print by Katie Cook, and many more.
Includes a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award-winning author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints).
A downloadable Teachers' Guide includes standards-correlated lesson plans customized to each story, research-based justifications for using comics in the classroom, a guide to establishing best classroom practices, and a comprehensive listing of educational resources.
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(starred review) "Elder has assembled an array of creators adept at speaking in engaging, nondidactic voices, and each subject…features three to five stories that skillfully craft basic principles into energetic stories…every student will find something to connect with…A great tool." (Booklist)
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"This serves as an introduction to educators who would like more background on the use of comics in the classroom." (Karen Hildebrand, Reading Today magazine)
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"Parents and teachers of kids in grades 3-8 will find materials here that kids will enjoy, and may suggest new ways to teach familiar subjects. It belongs in both school and public libraries, and would also be of use to home-school families." (Nick Smith, ICv2)
About the Author
Josh Elder is the founder and president of Reading with Pictures. Reading with Pictures is a nonprofit founded in 2009 “to get comics into schools and schools into comics.â&