In this activity students listen to information about two people who emigrated to Dublin. They then have to create profiles of other immigrants based on the text from the listening.

Kids love comics, so do many adults. This also holds true for the fast expanding genre of graphic narratives – stories, novels, autobiographies – which lots of readers, even ‘reluctant’ ones, really like. There is growing evidence that plenty of readers of graphic narratives become better readers in general, so comics and graphic novels can serve as a conduit to harder reading Read more