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.