Abstract:
Enhancing information literacy by engaging pre-adolescents in reading and writing comics is an exciting experience which facilitates their literacy skills. This paper presents the role of comic writing in acquiring information literacy among pre-adolescents in Nigeria. The researchers explored the influence of comic book writing on information literacy of pre-adolescent group in Children’s Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka through practical means. Focus group discussion, observation and score gathered from assignment given to them where used as method of data collection. The population of the study comprised of registered children on the 2013 vacation programme in the Children’s Centre, UNN while narrative interpretation was used to analyze the data. The result of the focus group discussion reveals that though pre-adolescents enjoy watching and reading comic books, they have not been actively involved in writing comic books while observations and their achievement scores, show that the visual thinking, drawing skills, creative writing, communication skills, language development and Critical thinking skills improved above average as the programme went on. From the findings, it is expected that managements of school libraries and public libraries; parents; stakeholders of education would strive to inculcate the skill of comic writing in pre-adolescents to enhance their information literacy
