From: Kathy Isaacs <kisaacs>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:55:11 -0400 (EDT)

let me try again since an incomplete version seems to have escaped into the web

Last year members of YALSA'S Best Books for Young Adult Committee made a special effort to read graphic materials. Some of us found this very difficult. We didn't know the conventions. It took us longer to process a page. I found the I was spending much more time investigating the pictures, especially compared to the speed with which I was reading the text. It seemed to require a different set of skills. I wondered if it would have been easier if I had spent more time watching movies and television.
  Or is it a third set of skills?

As Hollis said, they are different from texts. And require teaching, too.

Kathy Isaacs Edmund Burke School

Kathy Isaacs kisaacs at mindspring.com
Received on Tue 13 Apr 2004 10:55:11 AM CDT