Wednesday, December 7, 2016

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Motivating Middle School Readers: The Graphic Novel Link

Teenagers in this era tend to avoid reading. They cannot fell the pleasure between a numbers of beautiful sentences on a binding of papers.  MP3 Players, movies, and animation win all over it. Without struggle to comprehend and enjoying the illustration of the author imagine without the use of their ingenuity their motivation had been decreased and change. Using graphic novel as a tool to boast their interest in reading with different treatment. Student completed self-reporting reading log with their amount of time for reading, list of the title of book, and their reaction also comment. Using the log provide their vocabulary development became better than before with their better understanding with the word. The Involvement of graphic novel give them ways to improve, comprehend the specific format of book and having fun time can affected their better understanding. Provide access to graphic novels in school library, integrate graphic novels with the curriculum, and research about what the student category interest is one of several good way to motivate them in reading.

Source:
Motivating Middle School Readers: The Graphic Novel Link
Edwards, Buffy
School Library Media Activities Monthly; Apr 2009; 25, 8; Technology Collection
pg. 56


4 comments:

  1. Hi renastin! Yes, graphic has strenght to interest students in learning. Graphic helps ud to illustrate the story. However, how was the graphic included to the story? Was it included in every chapter or in specific page? Thank you, it gives me more insight about English teaching and learning :))

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  2. Dear, Rena.
    This is a simple blog, I think. You can make it more wonderful by modifying it later. Hihi.

    Your writing is not bad, but it's better to make the text align become justify and please give your citation.


    Anggita R

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  3. Your writing is interesting, because it is very unique to use comic in improving the students' reading comprehension. But, I think it is better for you to check the spelling and give it more details to make the readers understand your writing fully. Thank you for sharing :)

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  4. Great writing, Renastin. I do agree that graphic like picture, animation, etc. can attract the student interest in reading activity. If I am not mistaken, this activity belongs to extensive reading, right? :D

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