"This book puts into practice what we've long known but often ignored: one picture is indeed worth a thousand words! The chapters offer a practical look at how images in all their many forms can be used to motivate reluctant readers."
-Donn

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. Visual Literacy: What You Get Is What You See - Lynell Burmark
2. Graphic Novels: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Jacquelyn McTaggart
3. Comics, the Canon, and the Classroom - James Bucky Carter
4. Seeing the World Through a Stranger's Eyes: Exploring the Potential of Anime in Literacy Classrooms - Kelly Chandler-Olcott
5. "Literary Literacy" and the Role of the Comic Book, or "You Teach a Class on What?" - Rocco Versaci
6. That's Funny: Political Cartoons in the Classroom - Thomas DeVere Wolsey
7. Learning From Illustrations in Picturebooks - Lawrence Sipe
8. An Irrecusable Offer: Film in the K-12 Classroom - Lawrence Baines
9. "It Was Always the Pictures...": Creating Visual Literacy Supports for Students With Disabilities - Paula Kluth
Index

Nancy Frey is professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Nancy was a teacher, academic coach, and central office resource coordinator in Florida.  She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California.  She is a member of the International Literacy Association's Literacy Research Panel. She has published widely on literacy, quality instruction, and assessment, as well as books such as The Artificial Intelligences Playbook, How Scaffolding Works, How Teams Work, and The Vocabulary Playbook.