Comic books (and their slightly more sophisticated cousin, the graphic novel) get a bad rap. It’s a common belief that stories told in pictures are for young children, who aren’t yet able to read. Once you’re ready to sound out C-A-T, we often start pushing readers to more and more text-heavy books, and we cast a suspicious eye on anything with pictures.
Youth Who Are Incarcerated Deserve the Right To Write and Read
Many people define literacy as an individual skill. Write to Read, an award-winning literacy program of Alameda County Library, broadens this definition by locating literacy as a social practice in our community and necessary to make society itself more just and equitable.
Main Idea with Pictures: A reading comprehension strategy
Are you having a tough time determining whether your learner’s struggle with understanding what they read is a result of a decoding issue, or a comprehension issue? As a literacy specialist, one low-pressure and often fun strategy I’ve employed is using pictures to check for comprehension.
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