Saturday, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day, and what started as an effort to bring new hobbyists into comic shops is increasingly being used to encourage literacy by offering families ways to read together.
Friday at 1:30 p.m., Tom Lotz of Cool Comics and Games in Cape Coral joins the program to explain what Free Comic Book Day is, how it came to become an annual event, and how its increasingly a family-focused event that can help parents and kids find comics and graphic novels to read together.
Also joining the program is Chris Nind, executive director with the Literacy Volunteers of Collier, about how family involvement is a cornerstone of their “family and children reading together” program. It’s a project with the aim of involving ESL parents in their toddler’s English exposure at Pre-K programs.
And we’ll hear from Adam Molloy, a teacher a North Fort Myers High School, who uses comics and graphic novels in history lessons to help deepen understanding of European colonialism in Africa.
