Trading Cards to Comic Strips

Popular Culture Texts and Literacy Learning in Grades K–8

Shelley Hong Xu, with Rachael Sawyer Perkins and Lark O. Zunich

“This book offers practical ideas and valuable resources for integrating pop culture texts into a standards-based literacy curriculum.”
— Language Arts

Incorporating popular culture texts in the classroom can motivate students — particularly reluctant or struggling readers. This resource gives you everything you need to use television, movies, video games, music, magazines, and other media to enhance students’ literacy learning.

You’ll find a balance of research, theory, and practice, along with numerous classroom teaching ideas and student work samples. Appendices include reproducibles and annotated resources on popular culture texts.

© 2005 | 208 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-570-2 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-570-2

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Reading the Media

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