Instructions
Go to Make Beliefs Comix website (https://www.makebeliefscomix.com)
Click Create Your Comix and just create. There is a range of characters, balloons, prompts, objects, masks and backgrounds…
Save, print, send to your email and share with your students to read at home.
Use it in class in the following lesson. The easiest, no preparation tasks might be simple questions (ie What did the unicorn do? Where did the unicorn go? What was your favourite place? Where would you like to go?) but there is a lot more that can be done.
We loved it because…
We can focus on practicing what we are learning at the moment and the teacher include all the tricky phrases and the words that no one likes and no one remembers.
We can make it as easy or as difficult and as long or as short as we want.
We can print it, save it on the desktop or send it via email.
We can include our names, our class puppets, jokes and stories and because it is about us, we want to read it.
We finally like to read!
P.S. I tried to make it in class, with my individual students, too but it was too time-consuming. Perhaps there is some potential for students creating their comix on their own, at home but that is something to do in the future.
P.P.S. Make Beliefs Comix has a lot more to offer. Make sure you check out the other bits, too.