Tonight I attended a program sponsored by the Jefferson County International Reading Association (JCIRA). The speaker was James Erekson, associate professor of reading at the University of Northern Colorado. He focused (so to speak) on the fact that vision is the most powerful sense we have and almost all of us are visual learners, therefore, comic books can be a very useful tool to use to teach reading and writing. One way he demonstrated this was to have us read the graphic below but we had to say the color that the word is, not what is says.....it is surprisingly difficult! So pass out those comics..aka...graphic novels...aka....sequential art...it is a fun way to learn!
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