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Comics are useful teaching tools

December 11th, 2009

by Deborah S. Roberts

Remember when you were a kid and the teacher assigned you all those literary short stories from the 19^th century when you really just wanted to read the latest adventures of the X-Men? Well, it turns out you may have had the right idea after all.

According to Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, comic books are just as valuable to children as any other form of literature. And in research recently published in School Library Monthly, the professor says it’s about time this underrated yet sophisticated type of reading material got a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t.

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