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Reading Comics Aloud to Kids: 10 Strategies That Enhance Literacy
Peter Gutiérrez, the Graphic Novels Spokesperson for the National Council of Teachers of English, a founding board member of Reading with Pictures, and an Eisner-nominated expert on comics and literacy, conceived this worksheet to help parents and teachers enhance children's reading experiences.
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Building Reading Skills Through the Language of Comics
Geoffrey Hayes, who won the 2009 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for his TOON Book "Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!", shares here his argument for comics as an exceptional tool to help young readers. "If comics are done well," he says, "they can give the reader a multi-leveled experience, as instructive as it is pleasurable." |
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TOON Treasury Reading Group Guide
The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by Francoise Mouly, TOON Books' Editorial Director, and Art Spiegelman, TOON Books' Series Advisor. These humorous and visually engaging works are an excellent way to get children reading and talking about storytelling. This guide shows educators and parents how to utilize the collection as a teaching experience.
To learn more about the TOON Treasury, please click here to visit Abrams' website. |
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Lesson Plans for French English Language Learners
TOON Books teamed up with Franco-Belgian comic book publisher, Casterman, to produce billingual editions our comics for brand-new readers. The books' corresponding lesson plans have a wide array of both literary and visual activities -- perfect for French students of English!
To learn more about our bilingual editions, click here to visit Casterman's website. |
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Bridging Ideas Using Big Fat Little Lit
We received an awesome email from Professor James Carter of University of Texas at El Paso, about his inventive use of the Little Lit series in his English 3349 class. He writes:
"For the second year in a row, I've asked students in my Dramatic Modes of English Language Arts teacher-education class to consider how they might use comics stories as thematic bridges into more traditional texts. Big Fat Little Lit is one of the key texts they use for their comics stories. This year's crop of ideas is pretty impressive!"
We agree! See what they're up to.
And for more on Little Lit, including online stories and games, click here. |
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