Types of Graphic Texts
Comic books and graphic novels originating from Japan.
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Characterized by dynamic black-and-white art and a unique visual style, it is read from right to left and spans a massive variety of genres and demographics.
What is manga?
How an author organizes ideas within a piece of writing.
Acting as the "skeleton" of a text, it dictates how information is grouped, connected, and presented to help readers easily navigate, summarize, and comprehend the author's message.
What is "text structure?"
An individual frame, containing a combination of image and text.
What is a panel?
The first box in your comic strip that has the name of the comic strip and the author's name
What is a title box?
The infographic in the shape of a circle that was divided into several parts with percentages in each one, showing how all parts work together as a whole.
What is a "pie chart?"
A book-length narrative where a complete story is told through sequential art (illustrations and text).
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Unlike serialized comic books, which are published in short, monthly installments, THESE TEXTS contain a definitive beginning, middle, and end within a single bound volume.
What is a graphic novel?
The primary reason or motivation behind why a writer creates a text.
It dictates what the author wants the reader to feel, learn, or do.
What is "author's purpose?"
The spaces in between the framed panels in which a reader fills in to understand the story.
What is a gutter?
The last box of your comic strip that repeats the lesson and wraps up the story
What is the conclusion box?
When you see an unfamiliar word in the text and you read around it AND use the pictures to figure out its meaning
What are "context clues?"
A short sequence of drawn images and text that tells a story or delivers a joke.
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Typically arranged in horizontal panels, they often feature recurring characters and use dialogue balloons to convey speech.
What is a comic strip?
The skill where you combine multiple ideas into a single, unified whole.
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Rather than just repeating individual points, this skill involves analyzing and blending elements together to create something completely new or to form a broader understanding.
What is "synthesizing?"
A hard line or box separating the narrator’s speech at the top or bottom of a panel.
What is a narration box?
How you read a comic strip
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What central idea about soil is developed throughout the infographic?
What is "read the whole text?"
Serialized pamphlets that tell stories through sequential art and text. Typically published monthly, they average 22 to 32 pages and span a massive variety of genres, though they are historically most famous for featuring superheroes.
What are comic books?
The "big picture" or central message of a text.
What is a "key idea?"
Also accepted: What is the "main idea" or "central idea?"
Rounded frames around the characters’ direct speech.
What are speech bubbles?
When a classmate reads your comic strip and gives you compliments and constructive criticism
What is "peer feedback?"
This is developed through the character's dialogue and actions and is revealed at the end of every fiction graphic text.
What is a "theme?"
A visual representation of information or data designed to make complex ideas easy to understand at a glance.
This text combines images, charts, icons, and minimal text to turn dense data into engaging, shareable stories.
What is an infographic?
Specific, supporting pieces of information—such as facts, examples, or reasons—that prove, explain, or elaborate on the key ideas.
What are "details?"
Little symbols or motion lines that portray characters’ emotions or movement.
What is "emanata?"
The paper you used to plan your comic strip.
What is an "outline?"
Also accepted: Comic Strip Plan
The similar central idea from both texts on the test.
What is "success depends on several parts working together?"