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Publication Date: 2011
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The World in Words and Pictures: How Graphic Novels Can Help to Increase Reading Comprehension for Students with Hearing Loss
White, Britt
Knowledge Quest, v39 n3 p18-25 Jan-Feb 2011
The use of graphic novels to engage students has increased steadily in recent years. School librarians and teachers throughout elementary, middle, and secondary schools are integrating graphic novels into English language arts learning and across the curriculum. The growing acceptance of graphic novels in teaching and learning activities is due in large part to their usefulness and appeal as tools with which to engage reluctant and struggling readers. The combination of text and pictures that is employed in these materials has proved to be of high interest to readers and offers them ways to be successful in their literacy activities. This article discusses how graphic novels may be used with students who struggle with reading comprehension due, in part, to hearing loss. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, School Libraries, Novels, Teaching Methods, Adolescent Literature, Cartoons, Hearing Impairments, Reading Motivation, Language Arts
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