Comics in the primary education classroom. A proposal to create literary readers

Abstract

The appearance of technologies in today's society seems to be affecting the development of the reading habit of the younger population. This work pursues a triple objective. On the one hand, deepen the knowledge of the advantages and benefits of comics for students, within the framework of literary education and, on the other hand, analyze their possible uses in the Primary Education classroom, and finally, explore the editorial offer current quality comics for these ages. We complete this study with a didactic proposal, the purpose of which is to provide a positive experience to new readers that brings them closer to the comic subgenre through the choice of reading one of the three selected works: Ariol, Superpatata or Bitmax&Co. The results show that immersion in literature is the step to evolve as competent and critical people.