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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811746003321

Autore

Bowkett Stephen

Titolo

Using comic art to improve speaking, reading and writing / / Steve Bowkett and Tony Hitchman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-67536-1

9786613833402

1-136-67537-X

1-283-52095-8

0-203-80944-0

Edizione

[[1st.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HitchmanTony <1952->

Disciplina

372.62/3044

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc., in education

Oral communication - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Reading (Elementary)

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Language arts (Elementary)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Comic Art as a Visual Organiser for Planning Writing; 1. Strong Openings; 2. Opening Lines; 3. What do you want the Reader to See?; 4. Details Add to the Tension; 5. Jump into the Action; 6. Small, Important Details; 7. Drawing as Visual Shorthand; 8. Scripting; 9. Strong Endings; 10. Creating Quick Characters; 11. Don't take that Tone with Me!; 12. Heroes and Villains; 13. Controlling Pace; 14. Build Up the Drama; 15. Anticipation; 16. Genre; 17. Using Kapow! Techniques for Art Appreciation; 18. Kapow! Techniques and Non-Fiction Writing

19. A Note on Rough Layouts20. Afterword - the Learning Value of Comics; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children's interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The



book's underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help children generate, organise and refine their ideas when writing and talking about text. In reading comic books children are engaging with highly complex and structured narrative forms. Whether they realise it or not, their emergent visual literacy promotes thinking skills and develops wider metacogniti