Two challenging classroom goals—to teach fluency and to motivate readers—can be reached through graphica—which includes graphic novels and comic books. Literacy specialist Terry Thompson presents a classroom environment where struggling and reluctant readers are eager to read, learn, and engage—and reach fluency. He explains how this exciting medium can be worked into literary frameworks for second through sixth grades. Thompson includes real-life classroom examples and touches on all potential uses, including how ESL students are aided in understanding idiomatic expressions through analyzing the illustration to text correlations. The appendix has several resources including comic book element templates, graphic organizers, blackline masters, and a summary of graphica history.