I find that the students that I have worked with love reading comics and creating them. I think it is a very creative and engaging ways for students to show their knowledge of the content through a comic strip. The comics made by the class could be put together into a book to create a graphic novel. Before reading the article I have not heard a comic book be called a graphic novel. I think for children, hearing that they will create a comic book is more exciting because that is the term they are familiar with but they can be taught the new term. Comics tend to make the content more interesting to the reader because you are not just reading the text and the pictures are able to help the students to make better sense of the material. This is very good for students because people are very visual learners.
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Heather...I'm glad you've seen the interest in comics first hand from your students! As Gene Yang said, Graphic Novels are just long comics! There is a ton of research that discusses the benefits of sequential art and visual narrative in comics and graphic novels, so use them as you like! They are great for visual learners, struggling readers and also as a "hook" to interest students to read.
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