Acknowledgments About the Editors About the Contributors Introduction 1. Visual Literacy: What You Get Is What You See - Lynell Burmark 2. Graphic Novels: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Jacquelyn McTaggart 3. Comics, the Canon, and the Classroom - James Bucky Carter 4. Seeing the World Through a Stranger's Eyes: Exploring the Potential of Anime in Literacy Classrooms - Kelly Chandler-Olcott 5. "Literary Literacy" and the Role of the Comic Book, or "You Teach a Class on What?" - Rocco Versaci 6. That's Funny: Political Cartoons in the Classroom - Thomas DeVere Wolsey 7. Learning From Illustrations in Picturebooks - Lawrence Sipe 8. An Irrecusable Offer: Film in the K-12 Classroom - Lawrence Baines 9. "It Was Always the Pictures...": Creating Visual Literacy Supports for Students With Disabilities - Paula Kluth Index

