Teachers can use comics for reading instruction by capitalizing on their colorful graphic representation. Technology and reading are wed during the use of the Internet, and readers must rely on their visual literacy skills–a group of vision competencies people can hone for comprehension. This article reports on strategies for developing visual literacy skills by using comic strips. Comic strips provide a quick, concise way to teach and apply reading skills for practice or remediation. Suggestions for using a comic strip comprehension game on an educational website as well as strips from the daily paper are offered.

Teachers should provide students with time for plugged e-book reading and unplugged t-book (traditional) reading because preference matters to young readers.

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Do kids even read books anymore? Don’t kids just read on tablets these days? Why do we still have libraries?Those flip remarks can be heard in many communities these days, from large cities to rural areas. But contemporary librarians should not fear. Recent reports of books being obsolete have been greatly exaggerated. One recent survey found that digital natives still prefer real books to electronic ones on their tablets.

1 McVicker: Lessons Learned from the British Published by New Prairie Press, 2019unique, hands-on, cross-cultural experience. It was designed to bring students in direct contact with children and teachers in British schools. Within this framework, qualitative research was a powerful form of data collection in which the student breaks from the image of student as passive learner to student as social constructivist, making meaning via reflective writing.The Liverpool Project was an eight-week study abroad offered to teacher education students for three summers. Short-term study abroad programs of eight weeks or less are particularly popular, with 56.6% of U.S. study abroad students choosing this format over semester or yearlong options (Institute of International Education, 2011). Because so many students had never flown overseas or not flown at all, we traveled together. Faculty-led study abroad experiences are just that; the faculty member plans and takes a course to the foreign country and teaches it within the experience while traveling with the students. The course enrollment is a requirement of the students' parent program but is taught while they are abroad with the professor. This is different than typical study abroad experiences where the student creates one or joins a for-profit study abroad program where a variety of students from multiple colleges and universities participate. A Teacher Education Study Abroad Model.What does a teacher education study abroad look like? During a typical study abroad experience, students engage in a variety of classroom-based lectures; tourist excursions may be included to various sites, but many of them are not experiential and often resemble the classroom experiences from their home institution (Aguilar and Gingrich, 2002). The Liverpool Project was based near Liverpool, England on a small college campus, Hope University. Students stayed in the dormitories and ate in the campus refectory. They were granted internet and library access as well as enjoyed 24-Hour Security while on campus. After the evening meal, the emergent literacy course was taught Monday through Thursday. During the day, students were placed in local Junior Schools for fieldwork in Year 1-Year 6 classrooms (In the U.S. these are Kindergarten through 5th Grade). So far, they travel together, live and eat together on a campus, take a night class together, and work in schools together. Where does the adventure fit into this experience? The students were granted Fridays-Sundays for independent travel; albeit in groups of three or four. This model proved to be a beneficial experience and our teacher education students came back to the U.S. transformed. Logistics.In preparing to teach a study abroad, it was essential to recruit students early. Most entered the program as freshmen with an eye on the summer of their junior year as the year they would go to Liverpool. They received approximate budget and ideas on how the study abroad would be funded early. Since they were actually enrolling in required coursew...