Abstract
Scholarship suggests that writing teachers and instructors looking to integrate multimodal composition into their secondary or post-secondary classrooms should consider graphic novels as a mentor text for multimodal literacy. To help those pedagogues unfamiliar with graphic novels, we offer three titles—The Photographer, Operation Ajax, and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow—students have responded positively to. Herein we offer a summary for each text, a discussion of their uses to teach multimodal literacy, a range of multimodal assignments to pair with each text, and a variety of assessment methods.
Highlights
The last two decades have seen a surge in scholarship supporting the use of graphic novels in the English classroom
We suggest having students compose graphic narratives by tasking students with analyzing the form of one of the graphic novels we describe above and creating their own graphic text representing their analysis of that textual form
Graphic novels serve as a great site for sponsoring this literacy development in students (Frey & Fisher, 2008; Fisher & Frey, 2011, 2014; Jacobs, 2007; Smetana, 2010)
Summary
The last two decades have seen a surge in scholarship supporting the use of graphic novels in the English classroom (for example, see Bakis, 2012; Cary, 2004; Frey & Fisher, 2008; Miller, 2015; and Syma & Weiner, 2013). He goes on to note readers of comics are simultaneously making meaning from a variety of elements, ranging from words to layout to panel composition to body language. As a teacher educator Mike uses comics with pre-service English language arts (ELA) teachers in an effort to help them plan and implement their own literacy instruction, toward fostering multimodal analysis and composition. A comic and digital rhetoric scholar, teaches entire courses on comics and utilizes comics and graphic novels to help students explore and develop multimodal and digital literacy skills. While many educators are well versed in the scholarship, others incorporate comics
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