fun with comics and cartoons
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Fun Ways of Exploiting Comics and Cartoons in the Classroom
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Why use comics and cartoons?
engagin
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educational
fun
creativeWhy use
comics and cartoons?
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What do they
promote?
Reading & writing skill
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Learning opportunitie
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Cross-curricular
skills
Cultural awareness
What do they
promote?
Keep a portfolio of all the comics students create to serve as a measure of progress
Print out and enlarge individual comic strips and then display them on classroom walls
Create comics to use as signs and posters around the school
Students introduce themselves via comics and create a collage to put on the class wall
Write short book reviews as comic strips instead of traditional way
Ask students to put comic strips in order to practice sequencing
Create a comic expressing a controversial opinion to generate a discussion
Choose topical comics and cartoons to use as a base for introducing a class discussion on current news of the day/week
My favourite cartoon
sites
MAKEBELIEFS
BITSTRIPS
TOONDOWRITE COMICS
SUPER HEROES
http://superherosquad.marvel.com
Create promotional posters!
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Post blog comments in an unusual way!
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Comic strip designed and created by Lidiana, 8 years old, as a creative writing activity
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Jazz up dialogues!
Thanks to Annalisa Deia for her comichttp://superherosquad.marvel.com
Make powerful statements!
Promote Webinars via Comics!
Continue the story........
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Choose the ending to a story
Guess the caption
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html
That reminds me. Charles rang but this new line was so faint I’ve no idea what he
wanted.”
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html
Common Slang Expressions
Grammar Practice
www.writecomics.com
Comic created by:Primary Group B Lake School of EnglishJuly 2011
A Film Review
Hypothetical Questions
Idioms & Phrasals
Idioms
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Phrasal Verbs
Informal language
Vocabulary review
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Expressing Opinions
http://stripgenerator.com
http://sketchfu.com/draw
I think cartoons are brilliant!!
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Research and resources for my RSCON3 session on Comics and Cartoons can be located from my Scoop.it! curation site as seen below :
http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons
www.sketchfu.com
Thank you for attending!Janet’s Abruzzo Edubloghttp://civitaquana.blogspot.comTwitter @janetbianchiniScoop.it Comics and Cartoonshttp://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons