Classroom Uses
Below are examples of Classroom Uses
Reading
Reading
- For pre-readers comic can provide practice with sequencing
- For early readers provide visual clues to the context of the narrative
- For more advanced readers use to reinforce understanding of puns, alliterations, metaphors, symbolism, point of view, inference and narrative structures.
- Book reports - character and plot analysis, thematic content, purpose, story development, personal evaluation
- Interpreting poetry
- Storybooks
- "How-to' Guides
- Story Boards
- Writing Planners
- Reproduce a drama
- Create a comic book version of a play
- Dialogues
- Understanding onmatopoeia
- Science experiments
- Illustrate scientific concepts
- Give voice to scientific concepts - electrons, leaves, planets, etc.
- Story Problems
- Create an analysis of shapes wherein the comic book characters are debating the pros and cons of the cartoon panel shapes that entrap them.
- Timelines
- Reenactment of a historical event
- Biography of a historical figure
- Postcards from geographic locations
- Create a comic around wellness issues - bullying, friendship, caring, sharing
- Create safety for diet and exercise