Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills 1st Edition

I was in a seminar on the graphic novel and used this for my research. It's a great one for ideas and importance of teaching visual texts

I was quite satisfied by this book that mainly talks about the use of graphic novels and other visual aids in the classroom to improve comprehension instruction as well as critical literacy. Most of the articles are scholarly, while there are a few which suggest useful activities in the classroom. One of the things that I thought were helpful were the number of new literary concepts that are important to literacy and that I ignored, such as anime, picturebooks, manga, the differences between the comic book anf the graphic novel. I didn't know that there was a difference between a picturebook and a book with illustrations. The book gave me many new insights in litercy instruction that I ignored. If you want to explain the use of visuals or graphic novels in the classroom with theory and research, this is the book. However, what we may find more useful are the suggested strategies.

What a great idea for a book! This is a book all about visual literacy and visual rhetoric, and it's written as a comic! The authors themselves appear as characters in this textbook, which is also cool.Without a doubt, there are a lot of textbooks about writing out there. This one is different and would be a great book to teach or read in a class focused on comics, graphic narratives, and graphic novels. What a clever book!

I wanted to like this book. I bought it for a class which I enjoyed but it is so out of date to be laughable.

I had to use this text for a specialist program. However, I found myself reading this without instruction to do so. I loved this book! Great read for ALL TEACHERS.

I'm reading a gazillion comic books and books about comics/comic scholarship and this was a helpful, quick read. It's a collection of essays that is well put together and addresses a variety of genres for promoting visual literacy. It was less intense than I expected but I got a lot of great information and arguments from the contributors, plus recommendations for which comics are appropriate for which grades.

This book is a fantastic addition to my library and a resource that I'm happy to share with every educator I know.

I would not recommend this product as I was looking for and it advertises as something that "Spark[s] students' interest in reading and help them become critical consumers of visual information." There are lot of citations within the text, which forces you to simply go out and buy or research everything listed within the book, which I didn't find especially helpful. However, the cat exercise and some others such as the storyboarding information can be really helpful exercise to implement in the classroom. Also, not even on the front page should be something about film since it dominated quite a bit of the examples within this text. I was simply hoping for a lot more sample lessons that were easy to use (and well, find), but I would respect this more if it were advertised as a graduate-level handbook rather than a K-12 book. I mean, how many kindergartners are going to benefit from this massive amount of research and theory driven information?