Fun Ways of Exploiting Comics and Cartoons in the Classroom

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Why use comics and cartoons?

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educational

fun

creativeWhy use

comics and cartoons?

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What do they

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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Thank you for attending!Janet’s Abruzzo Edubloghttp://civitaquana.blogspot.comTwitter @janetbianchiniScoop.it Comics and Cartoonshttp://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons