Rosen Graphica

Get kids excited about reading! Rosen Graphica motivates reluctant readers, builds reading confidence, and improves literacy skills through graphic nonfiction collections. Our subjects are curriculum-correlated and high-interest, and our illustrations are safe and age-appropriate.

Each of our Graphic Nonfiction sets provides a wide-ranging selection of colorful, captivating books, which include standard nonfiction text features such as glossaries, indexes, timelines, fact sheets, and "for further research" sections.

All collections include the Graphic Nonfiction Overview developed by literacy experts Terry Thompson and Rebecca Carranza. The Overview is an resource on how to use this exciting format to teach reading comprehension and to build vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

As this format provides strong image-to-text correlation, it's perfect for struggling and reluctant readers and ESL students. Second language learners can rely on the intricate image/text interplay and gain instant insight about many idiomatic expressions.

Collection QUICK LINKS:
JUNIOR GRAPHICA—Interest levels 2 - 8:
Environmental Dangers • Biographies • Mysteries • Mythologies
GRAPHICA—Interest levels 5 - 8+:
Forensic Science • Careers • Battles of WWII • Civil War Battles • Mythology • Mysteries • Natural Disasters • Biographies Set 1, Set 2 • Discoveries
GRAPHICA in SPANISH—Interest levels 3 - 8:
Jr. Graphic Biographies • Jr. Graphic Mythologies • Jr. Graphic Environmental Dangers

Rosen Graphica enables you to teach using:
• Modes of Reading
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction
• Academic language
• Assessment
• Graphic Organizers

	Graphic Nonfiction Readers: • The subjects and format encourages independent explorations and self-selection • Expository preface and ending matter provide context • Layout and narratives sustain interest
Graphic Nonfiction Overview provides you with all the tools you need to teach: • Key comprehension skills • Vocabulary development • Academic functions of language • Text structures and genres • Critical thinking skills
Teacher's Guide: • Lesson plans to integrate content and literacy instruction • Blackline masters: strengthen visual literacy, comprehension, and writing skills with: –Additional practice –Homework
Map Transparencies and Activities: • Teach geography and map skills • Assess student progress	Blackline Masters: • Strengthen visual literacy, comprehension, and writing skills
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PROGRAMS Terry Thompson is a teacher, literacy coach, and psychotherapist. He is currently a full time literacy coach for the pre-K – 5 Title I campus in north Houston with sixteen years in elementary education as a: • classroom teacher • Reading Recovery teacher • basic skills teacher • reading interventionist • state testing coordinator • literacy coach Terry presents to literacy instructors and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Houston. Visit our Professional Development section to learn about in-person and online training with Terry and to learn more about his book, Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2 – 6.