The January/February 2009 issue of NEA Today, a publication of the National Educators Association, features a cool story: “The Amazing Adventures of Super-Teacher: Or, how teachers across the country are using comic books and graphic novels to add a little SNAP! to their lessons.”

The feature, by Mary Ellen Flannery, is structured to look like a comic with lots of illustrations by Peter Richardson. I always like that. In this adventure, Super-Teacher fights back against the reluctance to read that threatens his classroom by using the power of comics and graphic novels. Thanks to the visual cues and high-interest material in the comics, his class is soon reading at an accelerated level.

It’s nice that this article not only goes into some detail about how comics and graphic novels can be handy classroom tools, but also illustrates that teachers are heroes.

Check it out here.

NEA also has a great article about using comics in the classroom here.