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I teach Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's (MLK) "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" in my 10th grade English classes. Many of the students that I teach are struggling readers who have a difficult time comprehending the language that MLK uses in his letter. I would like to build a classroom set of the graphic novel "March: Book One" by civil rights activist John Lewis to pair with "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Graphic novels are a fun medium to engage students with difficult content in a way that they are able to comprehend. The exciting pictures and graphics allow English Language Learners and students with low comprehension to use context clues to decode what the text is saying. Speech bubbles and captions chunk the text to provide support for students with fluency difficulties. Graphic novels make text accessible for all students and there is nothing quite as exciting as seeing the joy in a child's face when they are able to read fluently and "get it." I plan to pair "March: Book One" with "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" so that students can use the graphic novel to build the background knowledge and vocabulary needed to read MLK's letter successfully.

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I teach Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's (MLK) "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" in my 10th grade English classes. Many of the students that I teach are struggling readers who have a difficult time comprehending the language that MLK uses in his letter. I would like to build a classroom set of the graphic novel "March: Book One" by civil rights activist John Lewis to pair with "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Graphic novels are a fun medium to engage students with difficult content in a way that they are able to comprehend. The exciting pictures and graphics allow English Language Learners and students with low comprehension to use context clues to decode what the text is saying. Speech bubbles and captions chunk the text to provide support for students with fluency difficulties. Graphic novels make text accessible for all students and there is nothing quite as exciting as seeing the joy in a child's face when they are able to read fluently and "get it." I plan to pair "March: Book One" with "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" so that students can use the graphic novel to build the background knowledge and vocabulary needed to read MLK's letter successfully.

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