WHY CLASSROOM MAGAZINES? In examining the educational value of children’s magazines, Morrow and Lesnick (2001) suggest that magazines are (1) functional —they provide information and expand the student’s world; (2) entertaining —they offer a wide variety of reading opportunities on many levels; and (3) sources of experience —they elicit both aesthetic and emotional responses.
As such, magazines serve as valuable classroom resources by:
• Exposing students to realistic and practical informational texts;
• Building background knowledge to support comprehension;
• Serving as entry points to literacy;
• Encouraging peer and home-school interactions;
• Highlighting the benefits of digital literacy;
• Building graphical literacy by exposing students to graphs, charts, maps, timelines, and other visual representations of data; and
• Fostering literacy and learning across disciplines.
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