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Read Comics, Do Stuff: 5 Instructional How-To Comics | Book Riot

Comics are a medium, not a genre. They can be used to tell any kind of story imaginable and, sometimes, they can teach us something new with how-to comics.

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Charting the sea change in diversity of children’s books, from the 1950s to now

Back in the 1950s, I walked around the block to my local library in Castro Valley — a first taste of independence at the age of 8. I loved the blond Swedish triplets Flicka, Ricka and Dicka. I loved reading about the Founding Fathers plus some Betsy Ross. Then there were the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Lovelace and some Beverly Cleary.

By current standards, the library shelves (and my favorites) were devoid of diversity and real-life angst. But much has changed, as can be seen in four new books that give visibility to the once unseen and recognition to subjects once taboo. I can’t help but compare what was available back in my day to what is available today.

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Some of the fun planned for tomorrow at the Family Literacy Fair! It's taking place 10 am - 2 pm at the Marion County Board of Education Building (Old Armory) and will be filled with games, prizes, activities, special guests, and fun for the whole family! We'll be there with BOTH of our bookmobiles, an inside craft table, and our special guest.... library mascot Marion Libearian, the town librarian! We can't wait to see you there! For more information, visit the Literacy Fair's event page by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2qPt1lk #litearcy #mymarionwv #readlocal #familyfun #librariesofinstagram

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Join us tomorrow for the Family Literacy Fair! 10 am - 2 pm at the Marion County Board of Education Building (Old Armory) and filled with games, prizes, activities, special guests, and fun for the whole family! We'll be there with BOTH of our bookmobiles, an inside craft table, and our special guest.... library mascot Marion Libearian, the town librarian! We can't wait to see you there! For more information, visit the Literacy Fair's event page by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2qPt1lk #litearcy #mymarionwv #readlocal #familyfun #librariesofinstagram

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Best of the blog - our top 5 posts

Best of the blog – our top 5 posts

Hi! How’s it going where you are right now? I’m in the UK at the moment attending conferences for my work at Uni. I’m not too impressed with the ‘summer’ weather here. Rain, wind and cold does not equal summer to this Aussie-migrant girl! The conference is great – lots of interesting things to learn and think about…but for you in the meantime, here are the 5 most popular posts on the blog. These…

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ccording to a report from The New York Times, more than 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, supported by several hundred artists and readers, have signed an open letter to the online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. which attacks its trustworthiness and accuses it of manipulating its recommendation lists and lying to customers about the availability of books published by the Swedish-based publisher Bonnier group and the authors who are published under its name. 

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Critical Reflection (Week 1 and 2)

  Week 1 and 2 were eye-openers for me. I was apprehensive about the Google Hangout format of discussion, but I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with it and absolutely agree that these kind of conservations need to be had in real time, whether in person or virtually. The questions we’ve discussed each week has caused me to ask even more questions, especially in relation to defining literacy and literature. In connection with my “virtual” and “professional” selves I am especially interested in what literacy means in relation to the growing presence of technology in culture and the classroom. I tend to be wary of redefining “literacies” to include visual or multi-media formats; however, I strongly believe that these are indeed modes of communication and that students should both be able to understand the meaning in these formats and create meaning with these different modes.

  Concerning my literate (and also professional) self, I am interested in thinking through the title of “young adult literature” and what that can mean and when it is appropriate, though I’m learning that it’s more of a book-by-book decision. I believe that students absolutely have the “right” to read most any book, with parental consent of course. However, I think the right to read and censorship have to be balanced when dealing with a classroom setting. Not each child is able to mentally and emotional handle some of the more mature novels, such as Maggot Moon or Kingdom of Little Wounds.

  The conversation about fan fiction was especially interesting to me and I found the emphasis on “just having fun” to be refreshing in an typically academic and rigid field. Most students do not write “for fun,” but rather because they are required to do a writing assignment. It’s so encouraging to know that there are students who are using their free time to consume novels and then create fan fiction based on them. I think I would agree with Oliver, though, that it would take away part of the charm of fan fiction to bring it into a classroom setting. I think it could work as an “extension” writing assignment and as a way to encourage students to engage their imagination even with more academic novels. It might also be a way to think about focused revision of a creative piece. In another class I took, Teaching Composition, the professor had us revise our pieces by either changing the perspective of the piece to another character or by choosing an inanimate object to be the narrator. It brought so much more life to what I was writing and helped my once stagnant creative juice get flowing again.