Literacy, Early, Bilingual, and Special Education

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Adolescents reading graphic novels and comics: What we know from research

Low, David E. (The Guilford Press, 2017)
Waiting for Spider-Man: Representations of urban school “reform” in Marvel Comics’ Miles Morales series

Low, David E. (University Press of Mississippi, 2017)
Critical Questioning in and beyond the Margins: Teacher Preparation Students' Multimodal Inquiries into Literacy Assessment

Jacobs, Katrina Bartow; Low, David E. (National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2017-04)

This article explores the potential of using multimodal texts—particularly comics—as a way of engaging teacher education students in critical inquiry around literacy and ELA assessments. We describe a qualitative study ...
Students contesting “colormuteness” through critical inquiries into comics

Low, David E. (National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2017-03)

In an era of “colorblind racism,” in which race and racism are often suppressed as topics of discussion in classrooms, this article explores how students used comics to invent workarounds for “colormuteness” in their school. ...