What is Visual Literacy?

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What is Visual Literacy?
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Visual Literacy

• Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, use,
  appreciate, and create images and video using
  both conventional and 21st century media in ways
  that advance thinking, decision making,
  communication, and learning.
• -North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

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Why build Visual Literacy Collections?

• Circulation Statistics graphic novels itypes
  comprise 30 of all checkouts
• 21st Century Skills reduced digital divide with
  its demand for multitasking and trans-media
  navigation
• Center for Media Literacy

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Vocabulary Builders
tardy
putrid
tremendously
tattler
fink
chasm
belly-aching
query
clobber
bludgeon
barricade
vomitous
impertinent
detestable
All words from The Clouds Above
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Owly seriesby Andy Runyon

• Wordless, for engaging experience (think Flotsam
  by David Wiesner)
• Style of Frog and Toad and Winnie the Pooh
• Ages 9-12, but perhaps younger
• If you dont like it, you have no soul! - Amazon
  reviewer

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Chaucers Canterbury Tales retold by Marcia
Williams

• Grades 4-8
• Elevated vocabulary with help from
  watercolor-and-ink cartoons
• Chaucers essence
• Friendly introduction to classic
• Boisturous, zany, fart-scene!

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The Clouds Above by Jordan Crane

• Absurd
• non-linear storytelling
• Surreal
• appropriate for all ages

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Baby Mouse series by Jennifer L. Holm

• Sassy in the spirit of Ramona, Olivia and Eloise
• Plays with power of imagination
• Grades 3-8
• Captain Underpants for Girls

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Pinky and Stinky by James Kolchalka

• Brave piglet astronauts
• Appropriate for all ages
• Silly story of adventure and friendship

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Tony Millionaires Sock Monkey series by Tony
Millionaire

• Unique fusion of text and image - 2 simultaneous
  stories eventually fuse
• Chance for children to work at how pictures/text
  can relate to one another

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My Sassy Girl series by Ho Sik Kim

• Romance black comedy
• Teens, grades 10
• Based on popular 2001 Korean movie
• YALSAs top 10 Graphic Novels

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The Metamorphosis retold by Peter Kuper

• Post-modern edge to old classic
• Kafkas essence
• More faithful than many classic-books-to-graphic-n
  ovels

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Now What?

• Amazon.coms listmania
• Alternative Comics
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens (part 1)
• 101 Best Graphic Novels (2nd ed)
• Graphic Novels Everything You Need to Know
• Getting Graphic Using Graphic Novels to Promote
  Literacy
• http//aclayouthservices.pbwiki.com/Visual-Literac
  y

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More places to go

• Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art
• Center for Cartoon Studies
• Daily Comic Book News
• Comics Worth Reading
• Comics Continuum
• Art Bomb.Net
• No Flying No Tights
• Comic Book Art Resource
• Dark Horse Comics

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Visual Literacy/Graphic Novel Blogs

• Manga Reviewer
• EveryDay is Like Wednesday
• Library Goddesses Graphic Novels
• Best Graphic Novels Ever

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YALSAs Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth

1. Batman Child of Dreams by Kia Asamiya
2. The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
3. Vogelein by Jane Irwin and Jeff Berndt
4. The Metamorphosis by Peter Kuper
5. My Sassy Girl by Ho Sik Kim
6. Yossel by Joe Kubert
7. Paul has a Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati
8. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
9. Little Vampire Does Kung Fu by Joann Sfar
10. White Flower Day by Steven Weissman