Read! Learn! Create a comic strip!
READ, LEARN, AND GROW!
What else would you do in an elementary school library? Draw cartoons/comics of course! Today I read aloud to my classes, then gave them blank comic pages. I asked them to create stories using these templates I found at Dad's Worksheets for free.
The second through fifth graders loved it! I had a variety of characters from dogs to super heros. As they created their comic page, the students and I talked about:
the characters...
the story/plot...
the dialogue in the speech bubbles...
I heard students listening to their peers as they described their ideas for a comic page, and giving positive feedback on what the other student had already drawn.
The students had to think about and plan as they prepared to draw their comic stories. In Creating Comics for the Classroom, the author Dan Ryder shows how students become stronger storytellers and learn to communicate more effectively through the process of creating comics.
In the article, Dan shares websites with free images for use in comics if students are working digitally such as Pixabay and Flaticon. I had my elementary age students draw it all in pencil.
Image credit: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/pow-comic-comic-book-fight-1601674/
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