Link(s) O'the Month: Comics

Recently, there’s been a huge amount of emphasis on the power of comics as a tool for enhancing student engagement and literacy.  According to C. Thacker from Macinstruct, creating comics in the classroom can have the following impact:

• for the pre-reader, a comic can be purely graphical in nature and help provide practice with sequencing as well as concrete to abstract transitions using illustrations instead of written words...comics can help early readers or readers with language acquisition problems by providing visual clues to the context of the narrative.
• for more advanced readers, comics can contain all the complexity of 'normal' written material which the student must decode and comprehend, such as puns, alliteration, metaphors, symbolism, point of view, context, inference, and narrative structures...a single pane in a comic can represent paragraphs worth of written material in a manner that is enjoyable and effective for the early or challenged reader.

Here are a few online sites for creating comics:

 

Comic Creator: www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

 

Make Beliefs Comix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

 

ToonDo: http://www.toondoo.com/

 

WriteComics: http://writecomics.com/

 

 

 

Enjoy ~ and Happy Creating!