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Teaching visual literacy : using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills / - Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, 2008. - xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Visual literacy : what you get is what you see / Graphic novels : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Comics, the canon, and the classroom / Seeing the world through a stranger's eyes : exploring the potential of anime in literacy classrooms / "Literary literacy" and the role of the comic book : or, "You teach a class on what?" / That's funny : political cartoons in the classroom / Learning from illustrations in picturebooks / An irrecusable offer : film in the K-12 classroom / "It was always the pictures ..." : creating visual literacy supports for students with disabilities / Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher -- Lynell Burmark -- Jacquelyn McTaggart -- James Bucky Carter -- Kelly Chandler-Olcott -- Rocco Versaci -- Thomas DeVere Wolsey -- Lawrence R. Sipe -- Lawrence Baines -- Paula Kluth.

'Teaching Visual Literacy' provides strategies for fostering visual and critical literacy competencies and increasing student engagement through the use of picture books, comics, graphic novels, traditional films, anime, and other visual sources of information.

ISBN: 9781412953115 9781412953115: £55.00 1412953111 9781412953122 141295312X

Standard No.: 2746859

LCCN: 2007033944

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA797620 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014458724 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Visual literacy.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Caricatures and cartoons
Reading (Elementary)
Visual learning.
Anime
Graphic novels in education
Education, Secondary
Reading
Cognition in children.

Dewey Class. No.: 302.2260712 FRE