Graphic Novels…
have a place in the English Classroom. When focusing on key literacy skills it doesn’t matter what sort of text students engage with. Few teachers refuse to teach short stories because they’re “not real books” and yet that stigma exists when it comes to graphic novels.
While graphic novels can help struggling readers, by offering visual cues to help decode the text, they are also excellent texts to engage the most avid of readers.
Batman: The Dark Night Returns
By: Frank Millar
Daytripper
By: Gabriel Ba
DMZ: Volume 1
By: Brian Wood
Photographer
By: Emmanuel Guibert
This One Summer
By: Mariko T Tamaki
Zahra’s Paradise
By: Amir and Khalil
Glitterbomb
By: Jim Zub
The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
Blankets
By: Craig Thompson
Add your own graphic novel suggestions, and tips for using graphic novels in the classroom, in the comments below.