Learning Beyond the Classroom: Using Movies, Television, Comics, Graphic Novels, Environmental Print, and Song Lyrics as Educational Tools

Every child is already a reader. They are reading the films they love, the comics they cannot put down, the song lyrics they have memorized without trying, and the signs and logos of the world they move through every day. Learning Beyond the Classroom shows educators and parents how to meet children inside that world - and build the bridge from there to the academic literacy their futures require. Written by a Vietnam veteran, retired Chief Information Officer, and thirteen-year elementary school teacher, this is not theory. It is thirteen years of classroom evidence, formalized into a framework any educator can use starting Monday morning.