March 2025

Jump Into a Graphic Novel!

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will describe and sequence the steps Dan Santat takes when creating a graphic novel.

 

Literacy Focus:

author study, Read Across America Day

 

ELA Skills:

key details, vocabulary, writing, text features

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a chart

 

Vocabulary:

graphic novels, outline, dialogue, sketches, series

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.4 determine meaning of words; RI.2.5 text features; RI.2.10 read informational texts; W.2.3 write narratives; L.2.1 grammar; L.2.5 word relationships

 

Lexile Level:

530L