Tim Smyth

Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text will allow you to harness students' love of comics and graphic novels while increasing critical thinking and engagement in the classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781032271774
• ISBN-10: 1032271779
• Artikelnr.: 63328327

Autorenporträt

Tim Smyth is a high school social studies educator and Reading Specialist of more than 20 years who travels the country giving professional development to educators on the power of teaching with comics. Smyth was also part of a global online comics in education program through the US State Department. He has been published in many outlets, such as PBS, and he also shares many resources on his website, TeachingWithComics.com. Smyth loves interacting on social media (@historycomics) and is the founder of two Facebook education communities-"Comic Book Teachers" and "Teaching With Comics." He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his wife and three comic book-loving children.

Inhaltsangabe

1. My Journey into Teaching with Comics 2. Defense of Comics 3. Resources
4. How to Read Comics 5. Comics as Artifact 6. Some Quick and Easy Comics
Lessons for Any Classroom 7. Sequencing and Personal Interpretation 8.
Symbolism and Culture 9. Tough Topics 10. Wordless Comics 11. Using Comics
to Teach Essay Writing 12. Bringing Creators into Your Classroom, Being
Human, Social Media, and the Emotional Impact of Comics 13. Literature
Adaptions 14. Fairy Tales and Folk Tales as Artifact 15. Civil Rights 16.
Making Comics 17. Refugees and Immigration 18. Social Emotional Learning
and Graphic Memoirs 19. Think Outside the Comic 20. Final Thoughts