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Title: COMIC RELIEF : Using Graphic Novels to Motivate Male Adolescent Readers


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COMIC RELIEF Using Graphic Novels to Motivate
Male Adolescent Readers
2006 NCSLMA Conference Winston-Salem, NC
  • Karen Gavigan, Director
  • Teaching Resources Center
  • UNC at Greensboro
  • karen_gavigan_at_uncg.edu

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  • From As You Like It
  • by William Shakespeare
  • Then the whining schoolboy,
  • With his satchel
  • and shiny morning face,
  • Creeping like a snail
  • Unwillingly to school.

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Current Boy Crisis in Literacy
  • The widest current gender gap for learning
    achievement, as measured by standardized test
    scores, is in the area of literacy (ETS Gender
    Study, 1997)
  • Male adolescents are outperformed by female
    adolescents in U.S. literacy achievement scores
    (Booth, 2002 Smith Wilhelm, 2002).
  • The gap between male and female reading
    achievement increases over time.
  • 8th grade girls scored an average of 11 points
    higher than 8th grade boys on standardized
    reading tests. 12th grade girls scored 16 points
    higher than boys. (Tyre, 2006)

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Definition of a Graphic Novel
  • A sturdy, lengthy comic book
  • that contains a single story
  • or a set of interrelated stories
  • told by using
  • sequential art.
  • (Rothschild, 1995)
  • AKA
  • book length comic

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Bringing Reluctant Male Adolescents into the
World of Reading
  • They provide comic relief to
  • struggling male adolescent
  • readers by allowing them to
  • choose visually appealing, high interest
  • literature that captures their imaginations.

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Graphic Novels Offer Variety and Choice
  • if we can get just a few boys to read a few
    good books, we will have started the change.
    Cajole, coerce, do whatever needs to be done to
    get one book into one boys hands, or back
    pocket.
  • From the author, Robert Lipsyte
  • as cited in Brozo p. 23 (Brozo, 2002)
  • When given the opportunity
  • to select reading materials,
  • male adolescents often select graphic novels.
  • (Krashen, 2004)

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Graphic Novels A Bridge to More Challenging
Reading
  • Samuel Johnson wrote,
  • you have done a great deal
  • when you have brought a boy to have
    entertainment from a book.
  • Hell get better books afterwards.
  • (as cited in Brozo, 2002, p. 77).

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Using Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum
  • They help students develop literacy language
    skills by reinforcing vocabulary
  • They give students a chance to explore visual
    literacy develop critical thinking skills
  • They can present information about literature,
    history social issues in ways that appeal to
    reluctant readers

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Using Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum
  • They provide stepping stones to full-text
    classics and springboards to extra learning
    activities
  • They can inspire challenged students who lack
    reading confidence, reading ability, or
    motivation for self-guided reading
  • From
  • Developing Promoting
  • Graphic Novel Collections
  • Miller, 2005

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Language Arts
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Social Studies
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Science
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Graphic Novels Gaining Popularity Faster Than a
Speeding Bullet
  • Four major comic book publishers have all
    reported sales increases with Marvel Comics
    experiencing a 400 increase from 1999-2003
    (Foster, 2004)
  • Some libraries have reported 25 increases in
    overall collection circulation after adding
    graphic novels to their collections. (Miller
    2005)
  • Respected periodicals, such as Booklist,
    Knowledge Quest, School Library Journal,
    Publishers Weekly, and VOYA publish articles
    about graphic novels as well as graphic novel
    reviews
  • The U.S. Military Academy at West Point recently
    made it a requirement for cadets to read a
    graphic novel before they graduate.

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A Word to the Wise
  • Convince your stakeholders share the research
  • Be sure to read reviews, preferably more than one
  • Use established lists from organizations such as
    YALSA

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Super Results!
  • When media specialists
  • use graphic novels
  • to bring positive changes in the literacy lives
    of male adolescents,
  • the results can be
  • more powerful than a locomotive!

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Be a Superhero in Your Media Center Start a
Graphic Novel Collection Today.
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