{"id":1125,"date":"2010-08-27T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/08\/27\/oldenday-xiii\/"},"modified":"2010-09-26T22:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T02:40:55","slug":"oldenday-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1125","title":{"rendered":"Oldenday XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers and school boards should embrace comic books and graphic novels as a \u201cgateway\u201d literature, helping children transition towards more complex narratives and helping boys catch up with girls in reading achievement, according to a new study.
\n\u2014Giuseppe Valiante, Postmedia News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was thinking it might be about time to add another entry about \u201cThe Legend\u201d to this neglected series, but then Joan passed along a link from the Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/em> that forced me to ask a question: Were comics a key aspect of my own progress toward literacy?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gettin\u2019 kinda hazy, but I recall being heavily into the Hardy Boys as a pre-teen, and comic books were a treat, like the Saturday morning \u201cTreasure Chest.\u201d (Remember Chuck White, or This Godless Communism?<\/a>“) As readers, we used to add little summary cards to our handmade \u201cbooks pocket\u201d \u2014until junior high years and the move to Tipp City, and then the comics craze struck with a vengeance. We even managed to scrounge funds for subscriptions! (Jimmy Olsen? What were we thinking?) I recall few youthful activities as pleasurable as absconding with an \u201c80-Page Giant\u201d of Bob Kane Batman stories after school (on a day that I\u2019d made a midday trip to \u201cJointer\u2019s\u201d lunch counter). DC reigned supreme, but we still liked Casper, Wendy, and Hot Stuff, too. We couldn\u2019t get our fill, so we hunkered down with Superman whenever we made a visit to Pam and Lottie\u2019s. \u201cSuperman Red and Superman Blue\u201d was the pinnacle experience. Sadly, for me, everything was downhill from there. And when someone let that litter of kittens make a stink of our comics box, the era came to a ignominious close. I moved on to Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a>, Jules Verne<\/a>, and Raphael Sabatini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should I be marked down as a statistic?<\/p>\n

Oldenday…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teachers and school boards should embrace comic books and graphic novels as a \u201cgateway\u201d literature, helping children transition towards more complex narratives and helping boys catch up with girls in reading achievement, according to a new study. \u2014Giuseppe Valiante, Postmedia News I was thinking it might be about time to add another entry about \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,18,42,36,16,24,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}