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Revitalizing Tier 2 Intervention With Graphic Novels, Linda Smetana, Dana L. Grisham
Revitalizing Tier 2 Intervention With Graphic Novels, Linda Smetana, Dana L. Grisham
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The authors explore the practice of incorporating graphic novels in a Tier 2 Response To Intervention (RTI) program for five elementary-aged struggling readers in an urban school. Using a formative experiment framework, the study found that graphic novels provided a vehicle for the application of word recognition and fluency strategies learned in the RTI intervention program. In addition, graphic novels were used to develop students’ vocabulary and comprehension skills and resulted in increased progress for students’ fluency as measured by DIBELS. Since graphic novels are not grade level specific, they are appropriate for readers across grades. As a genre, graphic …