Graphic narratives: a tool for fostering reading skills in a fifth-grade classroom.

Abstract

This research explores the reinforcement of reading skills in English as a foreign language of fifth graders through the use of graphic narratives, specifically, the comic. The research is meant to improve reading skills of young learners in three stages (Contextualization, what we need for reading a comic, and Using the tools given). Therefore, the Task-based approach is necessary to have a proper knowledge development. Through the Task-based approach, English structure awareness and active reading activities, students will develop their reading consciousness which will improve their performance in reading-related tasks. Consequently, students are supposed to read a comic at different stages to acquire reading awareness while studying aspects of language like grammar, vocabulary and sentences structure through reading a comic.