Storyboard That: Understanding and Implementing comics and graphic novels to improve Tween readers
A Session by S. Michele Echols and Eboni Henry
About this Session
Reluctant readers are often enticed by comics and graphic novels. These visually stimulating stories create a gateway to a deeper understanding of a text. The use of both can assist readers to develop literacy skills such as general reading comprehension, inference, and building new vocabulary, as they leap into the narrative without struggling with the format of a traditional novel. This workshop will define and demonstrate how comics, graphic novels, or the practice of sequential art went from being taboo to help in creating a dialogue between teacher/librarian and student.