"The Childrens’ Literacy Project: “Restoring the Love of Reading”" by Melissa Manwill and Robert Barrett
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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

children's literacy, reading, graphic novel, illiteracy

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

This project began as a desire to try my hand at making a graphic novel. I’d never done it before. Neither had my classmates. We had also never made a collaborative art project in the way that the animation program makes a film each year. Those two desires culminated in a 12-person team compiling an anthology of graphic novels to address illiteracy by helping students ages 9-14 get excited and stay excited about reading. The concept is like the children’s TV show Wishbone. You target the reluctant readers who are 9-14 years old, and you give them a teaser of classic stories that are required reading in junior highs and high schools. Hopefully, you get them interested enough that they actually pick up the book and read it for themselves. Graphic novels are good tools for this because they’re a natural bridge between picture books and novels.

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Fine Arts Commons

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