From: Claudia Haines <CHaines_at_ci.homer.ak.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:15:48 +0000

Cathy, Thanks so much for that link! I love having research to back up practice when talking to families… Claudia
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From: Cathy Camper [mailto:cathyc_at_multcolib.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:06 AM To: ccbc-net ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] Visual language and comics
There's some very exciting research going on regarding how people read comics. Turns out it's just the opposite of comics being 'junk food' - they stimulate the brain by using both words and pictures
Neil Cohn has written about how we read comics the way we read sentences: http://comicsbeat.com/scientist-our-brains-read-comics-as-sentences/
His Visual Language website it pretty fun too! http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/
As a writer, I'm thrilled by kids' visual literacy - take for example, how quickly kids take to manga, and learn how it works - with little or no formal instruction. I also love how kids quickly jump in and make visual mediums (comics, manga, online visual sharing etc.) their own.

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