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This past week a second teacher asked me to help them with a project for their students to create graphic novels in his classroom. As I normally do when starting a project, I started researching graphic novels. School Library Journal has one titled Graphic Novels for (Really) Young Readers, By Allyson A. W. Lyga. It discusses the need to include graphic novels in libraries and gives an outline of how to create one.
“For a young child to read a graphic novel, much less a wordless one, many essential literacy skills are required, including the ability to understand a sequence of events, interpret characters’ nonverbal gestures, discern the story’s plot, and make inferences. Best of all, these skills don’t merely apply to graphic novels. They are the critical skills that govern all reading comprehension.”
Even after learning the educational aspect of graphic novels, my question of where technology fits still exists. The guide she gives for creating one essentially is the beginning portion of DST, or any other book or story creation. The author suggests that the art teacher help in the creation of the pages. I have found several sites and programs that digitally create the graphic novels, but I am not sure they are for the really young student.
“For a young child to read a graphic novel, much less a wordless one, many essential literacy skills are required, including the ability to understand a sequence of events, interpret characters’ nonverbal gestures, discern the story’s plot, and make inferences. Best of all, these skills don’t merely apply to graphic novels. They are the critical skills that govern all reading comprehension.”
Even after learning the educational aspect of graphic novels, my question of where technology fits still exists. The guide she gives for creating one essentially is the beginning portion of DST, or any other book or story creation. The author suggests that the art teacher help in the creation of the pages. I have found several sites and programs that digitally create the graphic novels, but I am not sure they are for the really young student.
Photo taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jay_dugger/238819528/
2 comments:
Kim,
This is a really neat idea. Is this a picture of what you created in the classroom? If so I am impressed!!
I agree with Lindsay that this is really a great idea. I have never thought about creating graphic novels in the classroom. I would love to see some photos of the second graders projects when they finish them.
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