With a global focus on dropping out prevention in primary schools, the present study analyses the highlights of a multimodal workshop experiment that blended in-class reading of multimodal texts (graphic novels) to the development of social skills. For now, this article focuses only on reading. Graphic novels workshops, based on explicit teaching of reading comprehension, aimed at children’s enhancement of global reading strategies, self-cognition and inferential skills. In order to reach that goal, results (pre and post) from an experimental group of 6th grade children (N = 52) were compared to those of a control group (N = 47). When comparing groups means, the statistical test showed no effect of the intervention on students’ reading skills. However, additional analysis shed new light on the differences between groups. After the treatment, an important number of students from the experimental group (50%) reported feeling more skilled when reading graphic novels, more able to understand what they read, to make inferences, and to better use pictures.