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After the first week of student teaching, chances are you already know your students’ names, have carefully observed your mentor teacher and participated in engaging icebreakers with the class. Now you should feel ready to roll up your sleeves and start teaching your first lesson.

You are moving out of the university environment and into a classroom where you will start to see, feel and hear what it is actually like to be a teacher.

Emerging research shows that comics and graphic novels are motivating, support struggling readers, enrich the skills of accomplished readers and are highly effective at teaching sometimes dull or dry material in subject areas such as science and social studies.

With taxpayer dollars at stake, there is an obvious need for teachers in the prison systems. However, many qualified educations do not realize that correctional education is an option.

The following guest post is an excerpt from Michael Strom’s graduate thesis Finding Comfort in Comics: Using Comic Books and Graphic Novels to Reach Struggling Male Readers.

People have long known that puzzles present many benefits for children as they develop.