The document provides suggestions for using comics and cartoons in the classroom including collecting student comics to measure progress, displaying comics on walls, creating comics for signs and posters, having students introduce themselves through comics and make a collage for the class wall, writing book reviews as comic strips, sequencing comic strips to practice ordering, generating discussion with comics expressing opinions, and using topical comics and cartoons as a base for discussing current events.

6. 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

7. 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

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