Norman, Janiece_MED_2019

Title Norman, Janiece_MED_2019
Alternative Title Reading Graphic Novels in the Middle School English Language Arts Classroom: A Primer for Teachers
Creator Norman, Janiece
Collection Name Master of Education
Description Graphic novels have the potential to support motivation, comprehension, and inferential thinking for adolescent readers, and their use can help encourage multimodality, visual and media literacy, and diversity in the classroom. The problem is that teachers do not take them seriously or are not familiar with them in the first place. This thesis makes a case for using graphic novels in middle school English language arts and provides a resource for educating teachers who are novice readers of graphic novels. It describes the process of creating the tool, a graphic narrative aligned to subject core standards annotated to show both standards alignment and intertextual reading. It also summarizes lessons learned by the author in creating the tool. It recommends future creation of a more distributable tool which can be used in the advocacy of classroom graphic novel use as well as further research into the efficacy and improvement of such a tool.
Subject Graphic novels in education; Intertextuality; Education--Research--Methodology
Keywords Graphic novel; Comics; Media literacy; Multimodality
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2019
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s6628ks1
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96765
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6628ks1