Graphic+Novels+and+Reluctant+and+Struggling+Readers


 * Introduction ||= Reading Decline ||= Contributing Factors ||= Motivation to Read ||= Value of Graphic Novels ||= Studies ||= Conclusion ||= Resources ||= References ||


 * Using Graphic Novels to Motivate Reluctant and Struggling Readers**

//**"If they don't learn the way you teach, teach the way they learn."**// - Jacquie McTaggart, 2009

This is a review of the literature on the decline in leisure reading in young adolescents, contributing factors and possible solutions, with a focus on the role that graphic novels can play in attracting and motivating students to read and thereby improving their reading and literacy skills and creating a love of reading. Comics and graphic novels are part of our students' lives and a way that they learn. We need to teach this way.