How Comics Inspire Readers
Here's a very interesting article on how comics can help motivate readers. I loved how it debunked so many of the common myths surrounding comics...one being that those who read comics will somehow forego reading anything else. If anything, being a comics reader promotes active reading of more and more things (other comics, of course, but also more and more books). Nice to have this long, footnoted article from the Canadian Council on Learning back that up.
-- John Hogan
Liz,
The link seems to be down for some reason. Hopefully, they will have it fixed soon. In the meantime, here is a link to another article about it that provides more information: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/21/c5503.html
Article by the Canadian Council on learning you mention does not seem to be available. Do you have any other links to it? As a librarian building a graphic novel collection and working closely with our literacy specialist, I'd love to read it. Thanks.