Graphic Canon

The Graphic Cannon is amazing. I had never seen nor heard of it before this class. Since discovering the book, I have used it in my own class to help struggling readers, and it seems to help them a lot. I see the Graphic Cannon as a good thing, but there are some drawbacks. For example, The book largely is picture based. While I understand that this will help an enormous amount of students who may be intimidated by all the words on a page of a novel, it still could be confusing to students who need a balance of words and pictures. The Graphic cannon is a great teaching source. However, I do feel there should be more of a balance of text and art to make it more relate able to students. I do plan to use this in my class, however. There are students who struggle greatly with vocab words, keeping track as we read the text as a class, pronunciation of certain words, etc. So, this is a great resource. I do feel that students should, at some point, be able to understand the words in a text, given that they do not have an IEP or 504 plan, of course. I did really enjoy this text though because I didn't have to paint the picture of what was going on in the text in my head. It was literally already painted out on the page, so I really enjoyed that aspect of The Graphic Cannon. Overall, I really enjoyed this text, and I could see how it can and will be very helpful in my future classes. It is a great text, and a great teaching resource overall.