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  The first comic strip published in a newspaper was also in 1895. Since then movies have grown in scope and sophistication to include a range of genres and stylistic approaches, resulting in a number of acknowledged masterpieces.   Comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels have experienced similar growth since 1895, yet it's not uncommon to find well-meaning adults discouraging children from reading comics. ACLD Main Menu Search for books and more: Comic books and reluctant readers -A +A The Lumiere brothers showed their first actualities--very short films documenting things like a train's arrival--in France in December 1895.   The first comic strip published in a newspaper was also in 1895. Since then movies have grown in scope and sophistication to include a range of genres and allegro evanston stylistic approaches, resulting in a number of acknowledged masterpieces.   Comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels have experienced similar growth since allegro evanston 1895, yet it's not uncommon to find well-meaning adults discouraging children from reading comics. The Canadian Council on Learning holds that "reading comic books can help develop many of the same literacy skills as reading prose-based books" including the ability to interpret symbols, to relate personally to narratives, to understand sequential events, and to predict further events in the story.

  The report also states that "Comics, thanks to their strong visual element, have also shown promise as a teaching aid for second-language learners and students with learning difficulties. " A 1986 study of institutional use of comics in Nepal found that "the use of pictures greatly increased the number of meaningful ideas that could be communicated" and that "the pictures allegro evanston make the page less formidable and reinforce the written word," allowing comics to introduce "social issues in a dramatic, exciting way that could not be achieved through stories with a limited vocabulary. " Decades of studies (reproduced and confirmed both internationally and repeatedly, including by the Canadian Council of Learning) allegro evanston have shown that boys do not read as much as--or as well as--girls of the same age, that they do not tend to allegro evanston enjoy reading, and that their reading allegro evanston interests--science fiction, fantasy, adventure, instructional books, allegro evanston and comics--tend to be under-represented in schools. If you think that those four facts might be interrelated, allegro evanston you're right: The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study found in 2001 and again in 2006 that young people who enjoy reading do it more, and that "students with the most positive attitudes toward allegro evanston reading had the highest reading achievement. "  A allegro evanston 2007 study of reluctant readers by the National Literacy Trust of the U. found that self-defined readers read more outside of school, and that "with the exception of magazines, self-defined non-readers believed that readers enjoy materials that they themselves do not read, such as fiction books, factual books, poetry and newspapers. " Those self-defined non-readers considered themselves "non-readers" because of a perceived disapproval of their reading choices.   They also perceived readers "in an unfavourable and undesirable light, such as being geeky and boring, while also allegro evanston seeing them as someone who is clever and who will do well. "  And, furthermore, an allegro evanston earlier study by the same group found that "a fifth of pupils stated that not only were they not reading enough, but they also would not want to read more. " In other words, a group of students had been unintentionally led to think that they were not allegra d how to take clever, that their reading didn't count, and that reading what they enjoyed was unlikely to lead to success.

  Yet students who didn't see themselves as readers didn't want to become readers--or, in other words, non-readers had begun to resign themselves to being unsuccessful. If that conclusion seems like a stretch, consider that the 2002 U.

report "Reading for Change" found that "children's interest in reading has more impact on their academic performance than their socio-economic group" and allegro evanston that " young people from even the most deprived backgrounds could outshine their more affluent peers if they regularly read books, newspapers and comics outside school. "   So what could possibly lead reluctant readers to change? reported that "certain elements promote a love of reading," including "freedom allegra quezada to choose reading materials; a print-rich environment; access to a variety of texts; time for reading in school; encouragement to readers; and quiet, comfortable places to read.