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People usually mistaken Graphic novels and Comics to be the same, but the truth is they are different. Graphic novels are mediums with sequential arts to tell stories. Today, Graphic novels are used in many ways to enhance and improve the development of education for student. The issue is that we still approach graphic novels with caution, as their content has often been seen as controversial and somehow damaging literacy. Some teachers and librarian do endorse the use of graphic novels but they sometime encounter colleagues who feels that this isn’t right because their content has often been seen as controversial and somehow undermining literacy. To use this medium both libraries and schools will have to approach graphic novels with a certain standard to be followed.
To prove the use of Graphic novel, Art Spiegelman, an author who won a special Pulitzer price created a graphic novel, which is well known and use in the world of English education in school. Maus, this novel contains story of the holocaust and the holocaust survivors, written in an appealing format that tells a story through images and words. English teachers in the class to replace novels or even challenge traditional syllabus most commonly use this book. Not only telling about the story of a holocaust survivor from a second-generation perspective. This book could also help students build complex reading skills while relating English classes with social studies, because readers can also gain insight into the conditions under which people lived during the holocaust as well as how survivors and their families coped afterward.
As we know that there should be academic standards required to use graphic novels in the curriculum. To teach u...

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...hniques and styles of portraying situations. During an art class, the teacher could make the students to red a graphic novel of any kind to expand their understanding on the idea, while also focusing the style and techniques of the artworks. After they finish reading, the student should create one piece of drawing or a panel to improve their artistic and writing skills while testing their creativity.
This new method of learning has challenged traditional ideas of teaching but the students could now visualize more through the graphic novels. It made students look at literature through a new lens in relation to other respective subject. According to Shelley Hong, an associate professor in the department of teacher education at California state university, graphic novels can teach students making inferences, since readers must rely on pictures more than text.

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