Graphic Novel Booklet Assignment: Shaun Tan's The Arrival

The resources featured are related to Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival (a wordless text- short story). The booklet is a complete resource and features a range of analytic and creative tasks, sequenced in order of increasing complexity and aligned with a range of educational standards. The booklet constitutes a holistic and engaging assignment that is particularly effective for teaching reluctant readers and for teaching inference. There is also an extension activity- prompts for a comparative analysis with the paired text being The Simpsons episode "Much Apu About Nothing".