Developing Disciplinary Literacy Practices with Comics: Highlighting Students’ Strengths, Questionings, and Knowings in School Spaces
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2022
Publication Title
Teaching with Comics : Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences.
Abstract
This chapter explores how comics were successfully positioned in three different classrooms, challenging school norms and supporting disciplinary literacy practices. We ask: In what ways does reading comics across content areas support disciplinary literacy practices? Our work occurred across a range of age levels and subject areas, and across diverse school settings. A group of seventh-grade students read The Black Death in social studies, #foodcrisis was used in high school science, and fifth-grade ELA students read El Deafo. Work across these spaces led to our consideration of disciplinary literacy practices and how such practices could be supported by comics.
Recommended Citation
Dallacqua, Ashley K.; Kachorsky, Dani; and Parrish, Sara K., "Developing Disciplinary Literacy Practices with Comics: Highlighting Students’ Strengths, Questionings, and Knowings in School Spaces" (2022). 2022 Faculty Bibliography. 54.
https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2022/54
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