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You Have to Read the Pictures, Too Visual Literacy and Analyzing Graphic Texts with Students

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You Have to Readthe Pictures, Too

Visual Literacy and Analyzing Graphic Texts with Students

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Rachelle Cruz UC Riverside

Twitter: @rawqeli Image: Trinidad Escobar

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Derek Heid High School English Language Arts Teacher,

Temecula Valley High School, TVUSD

Email: [email protected] Twitter: @MrHeid_TVHS

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Talia Hurwich Doctoral Candidate, NYU

Co-author: Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels to Use Visual and Verbal Literacy

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Laurence Tan LAUSD and Teaching Tolerance Teacher of the Year

IG/Snapchat/Twitter: LTzy11

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Aron Nels Steinke Elementary Teacher

Mr. Wolf’s Class series

Twitter: @mrwolfcomics

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Tony Weaver, Jr. Founder, Weird Enough Productions

Forbes 30 Under 30

Twitter: @TonyWeaverJr

Image: Forbes The Uncommons

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Tracy Edmunds

Graphic Novels Are Elementary! on Teachers Pay Teachers

Twitter: @TracyEdmunds

tracyedmunds.com

Educational Consultant, Writer, & Editor

Elementary Teacher, 12 Years

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“Just as every word and aspect of grammar is purposeful in a traditional text, every part of the panel in a comic or graphic novel is used with intention.” – Ryan Chapman

@APLit_Teacher

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Neil Cohn Research on language and sequential images

www.visuallanguagelab.com

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How to Read Comics

Solution Squad by Jim McClain & Rose McClain

www.solutionsquad.net

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Panels are frames that each contain one segment of the action.

Gutters are the spaces between panels. This is where the reader must imagine the action from

panel to panel.

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Read the panels from left to right, top to

bottom.

Slow down! Read both the text

and the pictures. Think

about what is happening between the panels. Reread and think about how

the words and pictures go together.

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Panels can be any shape or size. Read left to right and top to bottom within each panel, as well as panel to

panel.

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How to Read Comics

Solution Squad by Jim McClain & Rose McClain

www.solutionsquad.net

Word balloons or speech bubbles

contain character dialogue.

The tail of the balloon points to the speaker.

Sometimes different word balloon colors, shapes, or fonts are used to show the

personality of a character or emphasize what they are

saying.

A cloud-like thought bubble means a character is

thinking, not speaking.

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This word balloon shape shows that the voice is coming over the radio.

Read the balloons left to right and top to bottom

within a panel.

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Splash panels are large images that take up most or all of a page. They are often used to establish

location or mood.

Sound effects are often drawn to visually represent the volume and

feeling of the sound through size, color, shape, and font.

The Dreamland Chronicles by Scott Savawww.thedreamlandchronicles.com

Captions usually contain narration, but sometimes

include dialogue or other text information.

How to Read Comics

What action takes place between these

two panels?

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Art • Describe the art style (e.g.,

sketchy, cartoonish, colorful…). How does the style influence your understanding of and connection to the text?

• What can you tell about the characters from the way they look?

• How is action shown?

• What happens between this panel and the next panel?

• Do you see any unusual lines or symbols? What do you think they mean?

Teaching with Comics: Analyzing the Elements

Dialogue & Captions • Is this text dialogue or exposition

(narrative)? How do you know?

• (For dialogue) How do you know who is speaking?

• Are they speaking out loud or thinking? (Outer/inner dialogue) How do you know?

• How do the shapes, colors, and styles of the balloons influence your understanding of the text?

• How does the style, size, and color of the font influence your understanding of the text?

Panels • What panel shapes do you see?

• In what order would you read these? How do you know?

• Why do you think some panels are larger or smaller than others? How does that influence your understanding of the text?

• Do the creators make the text or art break out of the panels? Why do you think they made that choice?

• Look for bleeds and splashes. Why do you think the creators made these choices?

Here are some basic discussion questions you can use to guide students in analyzing and understanding the elements of comics and how they work together to create meaning.

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The Cartoonist’s Bag of Tricks

Panel Size & Placement • Panel size can convey importance

or speed. Smaller panels feel quicker; a large panel feels slower or more important.

• “Zoom"or distance creates emotion or reveals detail. Close-up images feel more intimate and can be used to direct attention. The farther away the viewer gets, the more they see, so distance panels can convey setting or situation quickly.

• Panels don't have to be square or rectangular and they don't even have to be used at all, but it's important that the placement of the images leads the reader's eye in the sequence that the creator intends.

• Cartoonists don't show everything. Each panel is a moment in time and the reader fills in what happens in between

Motion In the language of comics, lines and repeated images are used to show motion.

• Motion lines are lines around or behind a character or object show movement.

• Multiple images of the same object can imply movement.

Color • Color can have great emotional

impact on the reader.

• Color can separate characters from the background or direct the reader’s attention.

• Creators sometimes use bright color against black and white to highlight joy or positivity.

• A limited color palette can create a mood or feel.

Text Appearance • Unusual fonts and colors draw

attention and give emotion to text.

• Hand-drawn, colored text can be used as part of an image for emphasis.

• Text can be incorporated into images as environmental text (signs, t-shirts, televisions, etc.).

Emanata & Visual Metaphors

• Emanata are symbols used in comics to show what a character is thinking, feeling, or saying. Some examples are a light bulb over a character’s head to show that she has an idea, or z’s to show that she is snoring or asleep.

• Visual metaphors can stand for abstract concepts. A heart can symbolize love; a heart ripped in two can symbolize loss.

Great cartoonists have big bag of tricks -- visual storytelling techniques that they use to get their message across to their readers. Engage students’ higher level thinking skills and expand their visual literacy by having them analyze and evaluate visual storytelling, and then challenge them to use these ideas in creating their own comics.

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