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Deep Literacy with the Pre-Literate. Using Comics to Engage Newcomer ELLs in Multimodal Narrative. Mike RobbGrieco [email protected]. Key Questions for engaging in “deep” literacy. How can we do more than just illustrate the language and deliver content? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Deep Literacy with the Pre-LiterateUsing Comics to Engage Newcomer ELLs in Multimodal NarrativeMike [email protected]
+Key Questions for engaging in“deep” literacy How can we do more than just illustrate the language
and deliver content? How can we engage critical thinking about how to tell
stories with words and images? Goals: Use visual media to exercise deep literacy skills
Inferring Analyzing Story sequencing Actively using narrative techniques
+Multimodal Narrative TechniquesReading & Analyzing Comics…
•Cues for narration•Cues for dialogue•Visual-Lang. Inference•Emotion, tone•Color, meaning•Visual references•Sequence for reading
As we decode and interpret, the key question becomes:HOW DO YOU KNOW?
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+ Student Sample 1 Student Sample 2
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+Takeaways
Visual literacy as a key component of a broader Literacy
Analyzing and Creating Comics offers: Partial bypass of linguistic decoding & encoding issues
while engaging narrative techniques and critical thinking Support and motivation for making inferences Analytic practice as we question, “How do you know?” Strategic choices in narrative technique (dialogue,
narration, etc) Critical thinking in image choice to deliver messages
