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Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter

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 Comics make learning fun!

 Comics have gone from “scourge of the school room” to legitimate teaching tools, and the Common Core State Standards for scholastic achievement now explicitly recommend their use in the school room.

Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents within the comics industry with the nation’s leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the school room and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, whilst offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy. Highlights include George Washington: Action President by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, Doctor Sputnik: Man of Science by Roger Langridge, The Power of Print by Katie Cook, and plenty of more.

 Features a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints).

 A downloadable Teachers’ Guide includes standards-correlated lesson plans customized to each and every story, research-based justifications for the use of comics in the school room, a guide to setting up best possible classroom practices, and a comprehensive listing of educational resources.

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