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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Graphic “novels” are a scourge. Having “novel” even in the name is absurd. All they do is enable weaker readers to remain weaker readers while pretending they are actually reading a book. While students reading actual books are reading fluency, comprehension and stamina. [/quote]

The smartest kids read both because they understand it’s the quality of content and not volume.  High schools and colleges assign graphic novel.   Books like Maus, a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman who wrote his father’s story living through the holocaust using cartoon mice and cats and pigs instead of people.

Keep an open mind.

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Middle schools and high schools often assign graphic novels because it’s the only way to get many kids to read a a whole book now.  When kids read a book almost entirely composed of direct dialogue and pictures they miss out on a ton of learning.  How people speak and how people write are completely different.  Grammar and writing instruction is already poor or nonexistent.  Add in kids mostly wanting to read graphic novels and it compounds the lack of learning. [/quote]

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