Using Comic Books to Improve Three Elementary Students' Reading and Writing Skills: A Multi-Case Study Analysis

Abstract

Education and literacy researchers have acknowledged educational merit in reading instruction that integrates authentic reading texts, such as comic book series known as TOON books during guided reading instruction to improve the literacy skills of three elementary students in third and sixth grades who struggled with reading and/or writing, Each pre-service teacher identified four literacy goals prior to tutoring (three reading goals and & one writing goal based on their student's individual literacy needs, which totaled 12 literacy goal in all.  The pre-service teachers reported improvements in 11/12 of the students' literacy goals for all students while using these TOON books during their guided reading instruction.