Importance Of Comics And Gns In English Novels

Classrooms are different today from those of previous generations, they have become communities of learners where students assume more responsibility for learning. As opposed to a place where the teacher is in charge the modern class room there is often a hum of students, talking about books they are reading and working together in small groups using digital as well as print text. The students are more culturally and linguistically diverse, many have English as a second language (ESL). This Critical- reflective essay will explore using the four resource model developed by Luke and Freebody, focusing on; how young children learn to read, the four roles within the resources model are Code breaker, text user, text participant and text analyst. This essay will also articulate the understanding of the three phases of reading and writing development. Phase one, experimental reading and writing. Phase two, early reading and writing and phase three, transitional reading and writing. This understanding will then be applied to an early years setting including and application of strategies for cultural differences.

The audience in this literacy narrative essay is widespread because people from different social-cultural groups might be interested, but most importantly people from upper-middle class. Alexie's purpose is to express how anyone don't need to be affluent to learn. He expresses his point well in the literacy narrative essay and his tone is inspirational because he uses positive words such as “loved”, “bright eyes” and “lucky” to give an inspirational message to the reader. Alexie’s main idea in the literacy narrative essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing”: Superman and Me is how Alexie used his own personal experiences to express his point of view, about his love of reading. He learns to read with a superman comic book for the first time when

Cartoon is one of television show that e can find every day. A cartoon is a form two dimensional illustrated visual art. Cartoon also very useful media for ELT. Therefore, cartoon be the media of English language teaching. By using cartoon movie in English Language Teaching include the alternative ways of several methods used in English language teaching itself. Cartoon aims to enhance the student’s motivation to learn English, so they will not feel bored in the study. The using of cartoon movie also, the process of learning will be fun and feel better than before they learn without watching cartoon movie. According to Harold (1999:10) Learning is to observe, to read, to imitate, to try something themselves, to listen and to follow the direction. It means that, when the students learn English by watching cartoon movie, it can make the students listen the vocabulary and follow what the character of cartoon are saying, in other words, they can memorize the words and imitate it, wherefore they apply it in their learning process, and all of that,

The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, written by Sherman Alexie, tells a story of an Indian boy. Alexie, the Indian boy, has a pair of parents who loves him very much. Although the main stream of the society recognizes the Indians as stupid a clumsy ones, Alexie still proved to his classmates and teachers that Indians can behave smart and clever. In the essay, Alexie described his experience of reading and writing. Like the blacks, Indians own a base position, but Alexie’s parents and Alexie did not give up. Although no rich, his parents still bought as much as they can for Alexie, and Alexie treasures every chance he has and stood out from his colleague. How Alexie’s parents paid out all their efforts to cultivate Alexie touched

In the essay, “In Defense of Graphic Novels”, Kathryn Strong Hansen explains the different opinions about using graphic novels in a classroom. When most people hear of a graphic novel, they assume it’s a comic book and that it has no relevance in a classroom. Because they have pictures, they also assume that they are meant for children. Hansen explains, however, that students can analyze graphic novels the same way they would a prose-only novel. She also states that low level reading students could benefit from reading graphic novels. Because they can be used to help struggling students, students who are doing well believe that graphic novels are too easy of a read. It could also

When most people refer to literature that concentrates specifically on the Holocaust as the subjects, the first thought usually isn’t in the form of a graphic novel. Most people would believe a graphic novel is something only a child would read or someone to the same educational equivalent. Due to their engaging stories and appealing visuals though, graphic novels are idea for visual learners, inexperienced or unenthused readers, and just about anyone else who may not find traditional print books enticing. Graphic novels tend to show a relationship between the images and the text that makes for an experience in itself (1.). Sometimes even taking on a difficult subject, an example being the Holocaust can make for a different kind of experience. In Maus I & II, the author chose graphic novels as his medium. For that, “Maus shines due to its impressive ability to ‘speak the unspeakable’ by using the popular maxim, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ to perfection” (3).

This program is designed for the unit of HSC English Standard which aims to develop students understanding, competency and appreciation of the English language. In studying this unit, students will be provided with the opportunity to explore various textual forms so as to become reflective, insightful and effective communicators in an ever-changing society. It is becoming apparent that our classes are now more culturally diverse, thus our teaching practices should reflect those changes. The demographics of this English class is made of up 24 male students of mixed academic abilities from multicultural backgrounds. It is single-sex public system school, located in Western Sydney. This has influenced the selection of texts, supplementary content

However, when kids have low self-esteem, they aren't strong readers and that can discourage them from wanting to read. But these type of books are a great way to promote literacy. Naturally, administrators do not want to give ESL or ELA students “picture books.” Kids would reject that and deem it embarrassing because that is how comic books were so generally perceived. However, a comic book at a lower reading level might give kids the reading confidence they need while boosting their reading and language skills. This is true even among a higher level of education or corporal business as explained in a graphic presentation of an empirical examination of the graphic novel

To truly understand the effect of popular culture and its ability to foster literacy and further engage students in the process of learning, it is necessary to examine the interactions students have with popular culture outside of lectures. During my field experience the most obvious example of student interactions with popular culture came from artefacts, conversations, and the books students read in their free time. The simplest and easiest to discuss are the books read and the presence of artefacts, especially at the elementary location, school A. Consequently, students wore clothing with popular figures, such as Darth Vader and Spiderman, often making it a point to discuss the characters they were adorned with. At the higher grades, specifically

In this article Blake discussed the importance of reading multicultural books to help improve students that have low-literacy skills. The author shared ideas and types of books that teachers can use in the classroom that focus on the community, reflect cultural differences and history of the student cultures. The article also discussed the importance of primary grade and elementary students need for seeing themselves in the literature read in the classroom. In middle school the author suggest allowing students to read multicultural literature and write to reflect on how it compares and contrast to their life and culture. Blake suggest for High School teacher provide multicultural literature that focus on the history of different culture.

The journal article discussed the impact teachers can have on students’ academics if they include popular culture text in the classroom to draw upon the social culture practices of their students. The authors examined the use of popular culture to address problems in the field of literacy education. The article supports the use of popular culture can be used as one of the main sources to bridge the gap traditional academic text and incorporating culturally responsive literacy pedagogy in the classroom. The authors focus is to promote popular text and academic text that equally facilitate learning skills that are sensitive to diverse cultures.

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Graphic novels are seen to be successful to those who don’t like reading pages of words upon words, but instead acting more like a comic book with semi-detailed pictures that help the reader envision the author’s intended view. Although, they do have their limitations on being condensed and lacking details that could allow the reader to fully understand characters in the environment of the novel. With graphic novels, history is a great use to portray many important events such as the Boxer Rebellion in China and provide a novel that can inform an audience of the history and reasoning behind the event. As a whole graphic novels are best in that they can get a point across to the reader much more efficiently than a wordy novel, but not with it’s limitations of being condensed in nature and lacking the extra details needed to understand the characters in the story. Therefore, graphic novels reach a wide set of audiences, remains strong in providing voice and portraying it’s setting, but is weak with characterization and providing sufficient detail to the understanding of a historic event.

Many high school curriculums have a very rigid structure that entail various books that students are required to read throughout the course. The common theme of these books are the long, boring and wordful pages, but recently this has began to change. Graphic novels have been popularized as being used in classrooms to help teach certain topics. Comics getting built into the education system is one step towards the

Carger C. (2004). Art and literacy with bilingual children. Language Arts, 81(40, 283-292. ‘’Carger shows how inclusion of the visual arts in reading circles can enhance language and literacy learning for young bilingual students.” The study groups consisted of 6-7 kindergarteners through fifth graders. These were the students who were pulled out of class twice per week to receive help with their language. The teacher used visual art to promote multicultural stories to help them express their understanding of the stories. The teacher-researcher determined that English language learning (ELL) students were capable of developing an in depth level when combining art with the reading lesson. The visual arts scaffold ELL student’s comprehension.