Comics in the Classroom: Why Comics?
Throughout the month of August, Teach.com and Reading With Pictures are bringing youComics in the Classroom, a blog series about using comics in education, including why graphic novels are complex texts as defined by the Common Core Standards, how to use graphic texts to teach in the content areas, how and where to find the best graphic texts, and more. We hope you’ll join us and bring the power of comics to your classroom!
The following guest post is written by Tracy Edmunds, M.A., Curriculum Manger at Reading With Pictures
“It always strikes me as supremely odd that high culture venerates the written word on the one hand, and the fine visual ar…