This article is brimming with support for the use of graphic novels in the classroom. I love the first reason they give for students reading comics: BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. I love it! This is so important to me as I have spent a good deal of time studying student motivation in reading. If you have a genre of written text that your students want to read . . .give it to them!! Not only does this genre tend to motivate kids because they find it interesting, but according to the article, it supports struggling readers with heavy story clues in the illustrations and challenges successful readers to look at text a different way.
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