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Critical Pictures
Mitch Nobis of the Red Cedar Writing Project sees a growing need for critical visual literacy in a multimodal world, and so he takes his students on a one-week exploration of learning about, creating, and analyzing comics. Included are lesson plans, resource links, and student work examples.
Writing With Pictures: Creating Comics in the Classroom
Nick Kremer argues the value of the graphic novel and provides a step-by-step lesson plan for creating a sequential art narrative. Included are an instructional video, lesson plans, and recommended resources.
Serious Comics
Dave Boardman of the Maine Writing Project helps his students meet literacy standards and make connections between their rural school and the world by creating visual stories - video games, websites, graphic novels - about how people survive difficult times. He includes a link to one young…
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