Add spice to your teaching with graphic novels.

Graphic novels have seen a surge in popularity in and out of schools. They have emerged from the margins and are now recognised as sophisticated resources, where readers need to negotiate distinctive systems of meaning making. In classrooms seeking to expand students’ repertoire of practices for critical multimodal literacy (Serafini, 2014), graphic novels are complex textual environments, perfectly suited to enhancing literacy knowledge and nurturing a love of reading with diverse students. Graphic novels have the potential for focused attention to the details of image construction, higher order comprehension through inferencing and critical reading, thematic narrative work, teaching vocabulary, and composing multimodal texts. Lorraine McDonald and Jennifer Asha have reviewed current research, spoken to readers, and sought input from a graphic novelist to propose a fresh way of thinking about the rich literature resource that is graphic novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]