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K-12 classroom. Nonprint is an umbrella that includes everything fro photographs to web sites, TV shows to popular music, but this term also covers and avoids mention of the point that many of these works are-dare we say it?-popular. Over the years, English Journal pages have included reports from teachers who use popular films, music lyrics, advertising, magazine photographs, tabloid newspapers, cartoons, animation, and more in the process of stimulating students' speaking, writing, viewing, reasoning, and critical thinking skills. When these texts are used to strengthen students' reasoning, critical thinking, or communication skills, then teachers are engaged in the practice of media literacy. Teachers who have used popular works in the classroom know that such works can
Hobbs et al. (Thu,) studied this question.