Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Graphic Narrative
  3. Mo Willems
  4. Readers’ Response Theory
  5. Sentence Types
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Resources
  9. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  10. Notes

Mo Willems Author Study: Teaching Sentence Types

Carol Boynton

Published September 2025

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Notes

1Sunday Today Show, 2023

2https://www.pigeonpresents.com/

3https://www.pigeonpresents.com/

4https://www.pigeonpresents.com/

5Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics,

6McCloud, 9

7McCloud, 10

8 McCloud, 36

9Mo Willems: Authors, and Artists for Young Adults

10https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/review/inside-the-list.html

11https://mowillemsfaq.blogspot.com/2007/10/q-can-you-give-me-your-biography.html

12Rivka Galchen, Rivka. 6 February 2017. "Fail Funnier". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 48. p. 28

13Galchen, 2017

14 Galchen, 2017

15Galchen, 2017

16Karen Kinney. "Celebrating Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie Books". Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 2019: 86 (2): 17–18.

17 Galchen, 2017

18 Kinney, 2019

19Tricia Smith. "Reader Response Methods." EBSCO Research Starters. 2021

20Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. The Science of Reading Guide. Washington, DC: CAEP, 2024

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