Graphic Novels Research Paper

Bring Graphic Novels to the High School Students In recent decades, graphic novels have been so popular in adolescent students that they have long completed the transformation from a form of recreational reading material to a form of a genre of literature. Some high schools even start to use them as necessary educational tool in classroom. Bring graphic novels into high school curriculums to support teacher education is a highly charged issue and has been debated in a long time. In many experiments, graphic novels which are described as “educational heavyweights” have demonstrated their merits in teaching teen students in literature class (Jonathan 47). Visual literature facilitates literacy achievement for young …show more content…
Some researchers relevantly describe the students who are strugglers because of their visual communication way as “Deaf “students, and prove that graphic novels are effective to appeal them (Linda et al. 230). Graphic novels spark reading interests in the young struggle readers, whose desire for reading actually can and do increase with such enriched multimedia reading material. In “Building Bridges for Boys: Graphic Novels in the Content Classroom” ,William G. Brozo states that “because the illustrations provide visual clues to the meaning of the print and dialogue, [graphic] [novels] [are] an invaluable tool for motivating and supporting struggling readers” (550). Young students have reading difficulties, not because of illiteracy, but because of being unable to visualize the dense text in one page. In graphic novels, the combination of image and text provides scenes and meanings of the story in a multimedia and a stimulating way. Graphic novels fill the gap between the written text and the visualization of the scenarios for young struggling readers. The eye-catching characteristic of graphic novels is outstanding at increasing students reading interests, and as William believes that, “these features may be particularly attractive to struggling readers, who have demonstrated higher competencies with non-traditional texts” (550). The way of conveying meaning by illustrations with inserted words in graphic novels bring fun for reluctant readers and arouse their appetite in reading. Unlike traditional novels that are fulfilled with prose, graphic novels are composed of the pictures and text hybrid that is attractive to readers of different capability, especially to struggling readers. In this way, their motivation to engage with a text is ignited and they obtain their reading enjoyment that again enhances their reading interest in a beneficial