Teach it All with Comics
Teaching and Learning with Graphic Novels and Comics
Why should I use comics or graphic novels in my classroom?
Reading
- Engage struggling readers - ESL/ELL, Sp.Ed., dyslexic, below grade-level readers
- Transition from picture books to text-only books
- Engage visual learning
- Foster reading across the curriculum
Writing
- Use as alternative assessment
- Use for differentiation and modification with writing
- Implement writing across the curriculum
- Foster CREATIVITY and PLAY!!
Ideas for Using Published or Teacher-Created Comics
- Journal prompts
- Discussion starters
- Models for student-created comics on similar topics
- Complete blank text bubbles for ESL/ELL students
- Arrange or complete frames to work on sequencing
- Supplement/substitute for traditional texts for students with exceptionalities
Ideas for Student-Created Comics
HS Chemistry
Illustrate understanding of gas laws
Lesson Plan from Science and Technology Rock Wiki
Elem Vocabulary
Frayer Model (Adaptation)
Created with Comic Book! app
MS Math
Shared Ideas
Comic Creation Tools
iPad Apps
Comic Book
iOS - $1.99
Android - $1.99
Comic Life
iOS - $4.99
Mac/PC Download - $29.99
Kabaam
iOS - $ .99
Web-Based Tools (No Log-in)
Comic Creator
Make Beliefs Comix
Write Comics
Web-based Tools (Log-in Required)
Bitstrips
ToonDoo
Pixton
Resources
Comic Avenue
Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Serious Comix
Eydie Wilson
Gena Montgomery
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