ELA in Color

I'm going to start this process by being brutally honest... the only experience I really had reading comics growing up was through the newspaper; specifically on Sunday, when the comic strips were printed in... 😲 c o l o r  😲. Garfield, Pearls before Swine, Peanuts, you name it. And while I grew up seeing some of my classmates checking out Dragon Ball Z and Marvel comics when our English class would take our weekly trip down to the library, I never had the desire to pick one up for myself. I mean, they were for boys, right? My friends and I were perfectly happy with our drama-filled series that had, maybe, a handful of pictures throughout to mark the end of a chapter. Ironically, it wasn't until college that I started exploring YA graphic novels, and let's just say, it's been all love since. Well, maybe I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. But I have come to appreciate the engaging, multimodal experience that graphic novels provide for adolescent readers and, throug...

 Welcome! My Name is Kelly, and I am currently seeking my Secondary English Education degree. I grew up practically idolizing my ELA teachers and having an intense love for learning, so it's no surprise that this is where I landed. I'm stepping into high school classrooms for the first time this semester as a "professional," and while it has been a bit overwhelming at times (I forgot how much high schoolers loved to talk🙀), I am hopeful for the future of my career as both a student teacher and a solo ELA teacher. Education is a dynamic, exciting field that is guaranteed to keep you on your toes, so I look forward to collecting some tools this semester to help me run a successful group of young readers and inquirers.  An image that I think summarizes me as both a professional and an individual was actually created for a previous blog assignment (from Candance herself)! It is a "literacy selfie" that encapsulates who I am as a reader and thinker, what inspire...

 This is marking the end of my previous blog chapter. Next up, ELA Disciplinary Inquiry!