Teaching Graphic Novels to Adolescent Multilingual (and All) Learners

Kristine Gritter is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Seattle Pacific University, USA, and has published extensively about reading instruction, selection of classroom texts, and student discourse focusing on literature.Xu Bian is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Sunny Language Academy after serving as the Assistant Professor of Chinese at Seattle Pacific University, USA, from 2016 through 2023. She uses graphic novels as cultural and reading tools in her courses.Deborah Van Duinen is the Arnold and Esther Sonneveldt Professor of Education at Hope College, USA, and has published extensively on community literacy practices.Bill Boerman-Cornell is a Professor of Education at Trinity Christian College, USA, and has written multiple peer-reviewed articles and two books on teaching using graphic novels.

• Chapter 1: How Graphic Novels Can Be Used to Study Literatureand Social Studies Using Principles of Universal Curriculum DesignChapter 2: Reading to Understand and Reveal Culture as a Way of LifeChapter 3: The Complexity and Importance of Multimodal TextsChapter 4: Teaching Critical Literacy with Graphic NovelsChapter 5: How Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do Might Motivate Students to Read Chapter 6: Scaffolding Canonical Literature with Graphic NovelsChapter 7: Highlighting Symbolism with Graphic NovelsChapter 8: Emphasizing Vocabulary Growth with Graphic NovelsChapter 9: Enhancing and Academizing Student Discourse with Graphic NovelsChapter 10: Noticing and Creating More Precise Language with Graphic NovelsChapter 11:When Hands Are Tied: How Integrated Assignments of Graphic Novels May WorkIndex