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Geared at primary grade educators, Heffernan discusses the process by which she has reassessed her negative opinion of graphic novels. She urges, "Teachers have to rethink their literacy programs...readdress their personal concept of literature" (Heffernan). The grade level addressed is grade school and the author is in "Teacher's College;" however, the basis for broadening one's scope of what literate readers should be reading as text is compelling.

HEFFERNAN, A.. Rethinking Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Broadening Our Concepts of Literature to Benefit Readers. **Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy**, North America, 1, jul. 2009. Available at: <__ @http://jcrl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/jcrl/article/view/3414 __>. Date accessed: 08 Oct. 2012.