ERIC Number: EJ1238451
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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Students Become Comic Book Author-Illustrators: Composing with Words and Images in a Fourth-Grade Comics Writers' Workshop
Reid, Stephanie F.; Moses, Lindsey
Reading Teacher, v73 n4 p461-472 Jan-Feb 2020
The authors detail how one fourth-grade teacher implemented a comics writers' workshop in the weeks that concluded the academic school year. Each phase of the comics writers' workshop is described. Students interpreted and analyzed the words, images, and design features that compose published comics before constructing and publishing their own multimodal comics text. The authors show that multimodal literacies instruction recognizes the multiple ways in which students can represent and communicate their thinking, and they argue that multimodal literacies instruction should occur throughout the curriculum across the school year.
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Writing Workshops, Writing Instruction, Cartoons, Literacy Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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