Graphic Novels In The Classroom

• Teachers and educationist are now aware of the strong attraction that comics have over young people.
   Most youngsters would not read novels but they are most willing to read comics.

• Making the most of this attraction, graphic novels are now being brought into the classrooms as a means of getting youngsters to read.
• As opposed to common beliefs that comics are all violent, raunchy, or sexist there are now classics such as Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain as graphic novels.
• The words in graphic novels are minimal, yet the pictures help youngsters to comprehend.
• Second language learners give up reading if texts are too wordy. Graphic novels pull in reluctant readers rather than pushing them away as the visuals function as clues to help their understanding.
• A good picture paints a thousand words. As the pictures in the Graphic Novels are universal, they are readily recognized and accepted by the reluctant second language reader.