Reading With Pictures Teaches With Graphic Novels (VIDEO)

Imagine learning about the Civil War, grammar, and division through a graphic novel. Reading With Pictures is trying to do just this -- to bring comics into the room to be used as teaching tools.

Reading With Pictures is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity whose goal is to promote visual literacy by publishing what they call "Graphic Textbooks." The organization has worked with the Learning Sciences Department of Northwestern University to create content that draws from a list of Common Core Standards that are used for curriculums country-wide. The textbooks are aimed at grades 3 through 6 and cover lessons in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts and Science. Each book will contain a dozen short fiction and non-fiction stories.

Reading With Pictures hopes to raise $65,000 via their KickStarter campaign to launch the first in the series. They've solicited the help of some of the best comic illustrators and authors out there such as Katie Cook of "Fraggle Rock," Roger Langridge of "The Muppet Show" and Russell Lissau of "The Batman Strikes."

Watch below for Reading With Pictures' KickStarter campaign. Make sure you go to their website and their Kickstarter page to learn more.

Comments

[John Genryu]

10:17 AM on 04/20/2012

"visual literacy." Interesting term for what is basically dumbing things down for those with short attention spans. How about concentrating on teaching children to actually read and write instead? You know, real literacy.

[sabelmouse]

08:17 AM on 04/21/2012

i think in pictures, words are hard for me. i might have found that helpful.

[John Genryu]

10:58 AM on 04/23/2012

There are those who are dyslexic and, in the US at least, very little recognition of their particular needs. This however is aimed at the broader spectrum.

[addisonsteele]

02:37 PM on 04/19/2012

There are a number of manuals in use by the US military in comic-book format because a number of the new recruits are functionally illiterate.