Before I started this course, I had noticed the increased availability of graphic novels in our school library.\u00a0 My teenage son is a fan, preferring Manga to the North American style comic books.\u00a0 When our school recently began school-wide silent reading to promote literacy, student interest in and requests for graphic novels increased further.\u00a0 There seemed a clear link between this form of literature and the need to improve\u00a0 literacy rates as part of our province’s Student Success initiatives.<\/p>\n
In the past weeks, I researched the topic of graphic novels to find the link between improved literacy and an alternate form of literature.\u00a0 This website<\/a> is meant to be an informative document.\u00a0 My hope is to link it to the school website for parents to find documented answers to their questions about how to get reluctant readers engaged in regular reading.<\/p>\n A website is unlike a traditional essay in that I found it difficult to conclude the document.\u00a0 You will find both internal and external links.\u00a0 Typical of websites, the readers can choose the path to follow – it was never meant to be linear.\u00a0 Ultimately, I hope this site<\/a> encourages readers to continue their own journey in learning about graphic novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I started this course, I had noticed the increased availability of graphic novels in our school library.\u00a0 My teenage son is a fan, preferring Manga to the North American style comic books.\u00a0 When our school recently began school-wide silent reading to promote literacy, student interest in and requests for graphic novels increased further.\u00a0 There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099,1],"tags":[6643,4910,423,952],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major-project","category-uncategorized","tag-graphic-novels","tag-hypertext","tag-literacy","tag-multiliteracies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}