Fun with Comics and Cartoons

Fun Ways of Exploiting Comics and Cartoons in the Classroom

www.bitstrips.com

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

http://superherosquad.marvel.com

Create promotional posters!

Post blog comments in an unusual way!

Comic strip designed and created by Lidiana, 8 years old, as a creative writing activity

Jazz up dialogues!
Thanks to Annalisa Deia for her comic

Make powerful statements!

Promote Webinars via Comics!

Continue the story........

Choose the ending to a story

Guess the caption
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.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html

Common Slang Expressions
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html

Grammar Practice
www.writecomics.com

Comic created by:
Primary Group B
Lake School of English
July 2011

A Film Review

Hypothetical Questions

Idioms & Phrasals

Idioms
www.writecomics.com

Phrasal Verbs
www.writecomics.com

Informal language

Vocabulary review
www.makebeliefscomix.com

Expressing Opinions
http://stripgenerator.com

http://sketchfu.com/draw

I think cartoons are brilliant!!

http://stripgenerator.com

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!
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http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons

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