Using the comic format as a teaching tool is becoming increasingly popular in schools for a variety of reasons. Comics can engage and “hook” visual learners, teach students how to develop a storyline and plot, and help students make inferences from visual clues and text. After they’ve finished writing, designing, and editing their individual comic fables, students will present them in class and share them online. Perhaps through this assignment we will discover an “Aesop” of the 21st century!
The students in 5th grade Spanish classes have been using the new Macbook cart to create comic versions of modern-day fables. After a conversation about what constitutes a fable, students brainstormed ideas and began writing and illustrating their fables using a website called Pixton.
Using the comic format as a teaching tool is becoming increasingly popular in schools for a variety of reasons. Comics can engage and “hook” visual learners, teach students how to develop a storyline and plot, and help students make inferences from visual clues and text. After they’ve finished writing, designing, and editing their individual comic fables, students will present them in class and share them online. Perhaps through this assignment we will discover an “Aesop” of the 21st century!
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