<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">It seems to be a recurrent topic!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">One thing I have found is that new teachers, just out of school, seem to have a broader view of what is appropriate, including picture books and graphic novels. Getting one or two folks on board with encouraging use of graphic novels as more than fluff might help. We used to have teachers who dissed graphic novels - they've mostly retired, and the attitude has shifted.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:05 AM Honkoski, Trisha via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am so sorry that your students – and you – are confronted with such an ill-informed limited point-of-view. Here is how I responded to one such teacher. (Note: this is before New Kid by Jerry Craft won the Newbery in 2020!)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">First, it is best practice for students to have free choice in their book selection from the library to encourage a love of reading and to read for enjoyment. As Donalyn
Miller states in <i>The Book Whisperer</i>, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,10)">“Providing students with the opportunity to choose their own books to read empowers and encourages them. Readers without power to make their own choice are unmotivated.”
</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">This is one of the many reasons I advocate for at least one free choice selection.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">With respect to your concerns about graphic novels in particular, I can assure you that there is much evidence to support the contrary and how graphic novels benefit
readers, especially reluctant readers. </span><a href="https://minnesotaenglishjournalonline.org/2014/03/11/praxis-strategies-for-teaching-literature-3-graphic-novels/" title="(opens new window)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white">Research
from the University of Oregon</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white"> found that comic books averaged 53.5 rare, or more complex, words per 1,000. That's more than children's books which average 30.9 and even
adult books at 52.7. </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1080569913482574" title="(opens new window)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(89,89,89);letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white">One study</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white"> found
that graphic texts promote learning and better recall. Another found that </span><a href="https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1053749" title="(opens new window)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(89,89,89);letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white">students
had the best reading comprehension</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white"> and enjoyed reading the most when they read graphic novels. They also </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234751892_A_Novel_Approach_Using_Graphic_Novels_to_Attract_Reluctant_Readers_and_Promote_Literacy" title="(opens new window)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(89,89,89);letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white">motivate
reluctant readers</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt;background:white"> to pick up a book.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I’ve included some additional resources here that I hope will help put your mind at ease and reduce your stress.
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<li class="gmail-m_6843884105463600802MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><a href="https://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/blog/article/graphic-novels/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=autopilot&utm_campaign=fictionreaders&utm_content=blog" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The
Power of Graphic Novels</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6843884105463600802MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><a href="https://youtu.be/QqQ6QgXQdYc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Librarian Ro for Teach Graphix Week (short video clip)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6843884105463600802MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><a href="https://www.readingrockets.org/article/graphic-novels-kids-classroom-ideas-booklists-and-more?fbclid=IwAR14WaSLeLhGYdUTjMCdYS2PVaidvAOKFnlRISQ0qPdaLnGUqnQrN6G5_9A" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Graphic
Novels for Kids: Classroom Ideas, Booklists, and More</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Lastly, if they are struggling with how to read them – as far as following the sequence of the panels and such – I would love to teach a lesson (or more) on graphic novels.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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On Behalf Of </b>Elena Menicocci via AISLE<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:01 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [aisle] Help with Teacher Relationships Needed<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Recently I had one teacher tell her entire class in front of me that they were babies because graphic novels are baby books. Then she looked at me as if I were in agreeance. She has also banned her class from checking them out. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:55 AM Leanne Brown via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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with lots of pictures. Some teachers even say picture books aren't welcomed, even though I have been educating on how some are made for older readers, such as our Bluestem selections. Graphic novels aren't particularly welcomed either, and my efforts to have
the students take a balance of graphic novels with traditional novels has lead one teacher to banning graphic novels altogether with a "No Graphic Novel November."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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