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+-   Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy on Friday November 06, @06:28PM Hugh Pickens

Submitted by Hugh Pickens on Friday November 06, @06:28PM
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Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other kinds of books, and that there is evidence that comics increase children's vocabulary and instill a love of reading. "A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words," says Tilley. "But you could easily make some of the same criticisms of picture books – that kids are just looking at pictures, and not at the words." Tilley says that some of the condescension toward comics as a medium may come from the connotations that the name itself evokes but that the distinct comic book aesthetic — frames, thought and speech bubbles, motion lines, to name a few — has been co-opted by children's books, creating a hybrid format. "There has been an increase in the number of comic book-type elements in books for younger children," Tilley says. "If you really consider how the pictures and words work together in consonance to tell a story, you can make the case that comics are just as complex as any other kind of literature.""
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