Excite and motivate even the most reluctant readers with this collection of visually appealing books.
Informational text comes to life in the Graphic Books, which can be used on their own or in conjunction with
a related informational book about the same topic. The comic strip format of the Comic Books and the
simple, captioned photos in Humor Books make reading fun.
Graphic Books provide an interesting and exciting way to present informational text to students.
The association with Learning A-Z nonfiction books allows readers to make connections across texts
on similar topics. Graphic Books appeal to highly motivated and reluctant readers.
Comic & Humor Books expose readers to text features they may not usually encounter, such as speech
bubbles or tightly connected pictures and text. Jokes, riddles, and cartoons introduce students
to structured forms of humor, such as word play, situational humor, physical humor, and character
humor.
How to Use Graphic, Comic, & Humor Books
Graphic Books present information and topics from a selection of Learning A–Z's nonfiction
books in a different format. Use Graphic Books before reading the related books as an
introduction to the topic or after reading to expand upon the topic. The Cross-Text Lesson
that accompanies each Graphic Book gives suggestions for how to do both. Graphic Books can
also be used for independent practice for all readers.
Our Comic Books feature characters like the Monsters and the Scarecrows. Use these books to
teach left-to-right print tracking, dialogue, and humor.
Humor books can support the teaching of critical skills such as making inferences,
determining author's purpose, problem solving, understanding associations among ideas,
and mastering language rules and how they can be broken for fun wordplay. Students can also
use wordless versions of some of the books to write their own jokes and riddles.
