Abstract
In this research, an educational program which acquires media literacy through an activity of reading, interpreting, and appreciating manga targeting 5th grade students in an elementary school is developed. After students learned the explanatory text about a manga artist in Japanese class, they read the artworks of that artist thoroughly and did activities such as writing manga reports or making wraparound bands and point of purchase advertising. In the comparison of the average score of capacity rating scale between before and after this research, all the items improved significantly. Also, the average score of the experimental group improved significantly compared to the control group. In addition, from the facts that the average score was over two points in the evaluation of the three in the evaluation criteria, and that the match coefficients of Kendall were all over W=.7, it is suggested that the educational program in this research was effective.
