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Graphic Novels
Graphic novels are book-length comics. Continuous narrative from first page to last Usually cover fictional material in comic book
form — through the use of sequential illustrations.
What is Graphic Novel?
Graphic novels are LONGER.
They tell a complete story
Comic books focus on events
Differences between graphic novels and comic
Students tend to talk about the story-talking
about the text before teacher ask them to talk about the text.
Gives a clearer understanding, and it lets you comprehend the story faster
Easier to visualize and put in motion Increase understanding by using two ways to
understand, visually and mentally,
Graphic Novel in Classroom
Don’t provide
the kind of rigor that novels
require Comic reading can
be “a conduit to ‘heavier reading’” (Krashen 20050
Concerns about Graphic Novels
“Graphic novel now offers English language
arts teachers opportunities to engage all students in a medium that expands beyond the traditional borders of literacy” (Schwarz 2006, 58)
Opportunity to Engage all Students
To read a graphic novel, students need to
understand traditional literacy, including character, plot, theme, and writing craft, particularly dialogue, but they also have the opportunity explore “visual elements such as color, shading, panel layout, perspective, and even the lettering style” (Schwarz 2006,59)
Provide Visual Elements
A study conducted by Joanne Ujie and Stephen
Krashen found that “middle school boys who read comics read more in general than boys who did not read comics, read more books, and enjoyed reading more” (1996, 52)
Provide Reading Opportunity
1. Teachers read graphic novels and note their
own reading experience in order to better literacy skills understanding
2. Talk with your administration and your department about the use of graphic novels
3. Select the graphic novel excerpts with care; many of them are not school appropriate
4. Obtain graphic novel although it is only black and white.
Suggestion in support of using Graphic Novel
Provide opportuniti
es for exploring
story telling
elements
Teach or
reinforce
inference
Support
Visual Literac
y
Graphic Novels in Support of Reading Skills
It requires readers to draw background
knowledge with both pictures and text to infer what is happening.
“graphic novels can teach about making inferences, since readers must rely on pictures and just a small amount of text”. (Council Chronicle 2005, 2)
Teach or reinforce Inference
Students have to pay attention to “colour,
shading, panel layout, perspective,” and “lettering style”. (Schwarz 2006, 59)
“For students who lack the ability to visualize as they read, it provides a graphic sense that approximates what good readers do as they read” (Council Chronicle 2005, 2)
Support Visual Literacy
Character Setting Plot Theme Literary craft (dialogue and metaphor)
Provide opportunities for exploring story telling
elements
Teaching strategies:
- Teachers who have incorporated graphic novels into their classrooms- interviews with adolescents who want to encourage teachers to bring graphic
novels into the classroom.
Graphic Novels in Support of Story Elements
Students are invited to draw the main
character exploration in selecting two or three excerpts that help the reader to see the character
Character
The details of the setting increase when the
picture comes to life Uses colours (shades) to develop setting
Setting
Students read these picture-only texts , then
work in small groups to identify the key plot points.
Or, use a story that the students have learnt, then ask them to draw panels to illustrate key plot points.
Plot
Maus by Art Spiegelman: paints a story
through pictures that encourages students to explore questions of relationships between groups.
It’s a Bird by Steven T. Seagle & Kristiansem: explores relationship between man and Superman who learns that life, even if shortm is worth living.
Theme
Dialogue
Metaphor
Graphic novels in Support of Literary Terms and Craft
Graphic novel utilizes a format in which text is
placed beneath the storyboard panels. Result: Dialogue is written with quotation
marks under each character Students can see how punctuation takes the
place of word bubbles.
Dialogue
Maus by Art Spielgram, the story of Holocaust
is retold with animals. Jews are depicted as mice and Nazis are cats. Maus and Maus II (1993) use animals as
metaphors to capture rhe relationships of the Holocaust.
Metaphor
Ridiculing foolish ideas or customs for the
purpose of improving society, is alive and well in graphic novels.
Eg: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller with Klaus Janson and Lynn Variety
Batman is now aging- his costume and stomach sagging- considers leaving retirement and returning to crime fighting.
Satire