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RATHER THAN BEMOANING BOYS' FASCINATION WITH MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES, TEACHERS CAN USE THESE VISUALLY MEDIATED NARRATIVES TO ENGAGE RELUCTANT READERS AND WRITERS.

AN OBSERVATION

EDUCATORS WHO GREW UP WITH LESS TECHNOLOGICALLY COMPLEX MEDIA MAY BE TEMPTED TO DISMISS OUR CHILDREN'S AND OUR STUDENTS' MEDIA AFFILIATIONS, CONTRASTING THEM WITH WHAT THEY REMEMBER AS FAR MORE WHOLESOME LITERACIES OF THEIR OWN CHILDHOODS.

Although comic books or cartoons are often considered subliterature and hardly appropriate for schools, these genres make an interesting bargain with young readers.

As students get older, new multimedia genres of digital storytelling such as video literature can sustain their interest in reading.

To stay on literacy train, challenged readers need access to cartoons, comics, graphic novels, and picture books.

Texts supported by pictures are far more appealing.

Visual media available today are more complex than in previous eras and actually make students smarter.

Fantasies of power, escape, resistance, aggression, and fear are authentic human expressions.

For schools to effectively teach literacy, they should work with, and not against, the cultural tools that students bring to school.

Cutting literacy learning off from students' media immersed lives makes school an alien and unappealing place.

Teachers should tap into the cultural, artistic, and linguistic resources that exist to improve literacy instructions for boys.

MEDIA A ND LITERACY

THIS PRESENTATION IS BASED ON THE WORK OF THOMAS NEWKIRK

Literacy problems, especially in boys, can be addressed using media resources, since children are usuall attracted to media.

USING MEDIA TO ADDRESS LITERACY PROBLEMS IN BOYS