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Deep Literacy with the Pre-Literate

Deep Literacy with the Pre-Literate. Using Comics to Engage Newcomer ELLs in Multimodal Narrative. Mike RobbGrieco mrobbgrieco@philasd.org. Key Questions for engaging in “deep” literacy. How can we do more than just illustrate the language and deliver content?

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Deep Literacy with the Pre-Literate

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  1. Deep Literacy with the Pre-Literate Using Comics to Engage Newcomer ELLs in Multimodal Narrative Mike RobbGrieco mrobbgrieco@philasd.org

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. Student Sample 2 Student Sample 1

  5. 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

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