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ERIC Number: EJ1039583
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-175X
How Comics Made Me Love Reading
Silberkleit, Nancy
Educational Horizons, v92 p22-24 Apr-May 2014
The co-CEO of Archie Comics, a former elementary school art teacher, knows from personal experience that comics should be a tool in a teacher's toolbox. Comics can hook students on the love of reading. The author shares her experience of not enjoying to read, and even struggling with reading, to becoming the co-CEO of Archie Comics, which has now sparked her love of reading.
Descriptors: Cartoons, Reading Materials, Reading Habits, Reading Interests, Phenomenology, Learning Experience, Emergent Literacy, Educational Strategies
Phi Delta Kappa International. Available from: Pi Lambda Theta. 408 North Union Street, P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402. Tel: 800-766-1156; Tel: 812-339-1156; Fax: 812-339-0018; e-mail: plt@pdkintl.org; Web site: http://www.pilambda.org/index.php?pageId=49
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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