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Text IV
Teaching Reading Strategies
No matter what we are reading there are effective reading
strategies we call on in order to make meaning from the text. Many
of these strategies can be taught with comics and graphic novels.
The ones highlighted below are particularly important when
reading graphic texts.
Drawing Inferences
In comics and graphic novels, perhaps more than any other text,
readers must build understanding by filling in gaps. A whole world
of information is left in the gutter between the panels. The comic
artist expects the reader to infer the action that takes place off the
page. The more complex and sophisticated the comic, the more
important this strategy becomes. If the reader is not making
inferences, he is lost. Understanding this strategy and using it
effectively will help students read ’between the lines’ in more
traditional print narratives.
Visualization
Students who struggle with reading may not understand what
should be going on in the reader’s imagination during reading.
With comics and other visual texts, the images are there for the
reader. Through comics students can be taught how to create their
own mental images when reading more traditional texts.
It is important that students understand the visual cues that are
provided in the text. Although the words and images work
together to tell the story, comics are primarily visual narratives.
Therefore readers must draw on and integrate some important
background knowledge and understandings about visual texts,
comic elements and narrative structures in order to make
meaning. The more knowledge readers have about the way visual
texts work, the more successful they are likely to be.
Adapted from https://www.literacytoday.ca/home/reading/readingstrategies/reading-visual-texts/reading-comics