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Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore a variety of comic strips, discuss components of comic strips, and examine conventions of comic strips. They apply what they have learned about comics by creating their own comic.
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Adding & Subtracting (Combining) Integers

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Maintain a positive atmosphere in your math class with this fun lesson on adding and subtracting integers. After first explaining the rules for combining positive and negative numbers, this resource uses a comic strip...
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Cooperative Comics

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars create comics identifying conflicts and their resolutions. In this conflict resolution instructional activity, small groups of students follow specific mapping instructions to illustrate a conflict and its resolution....
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Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story

For Students 5th - 8th
Now here is a resource you don't see everyday. It's a printable version of a 17-page, full-color comic that describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the civil rights movement in 1955 and 1956. It focuses on the actions of Martin Luther...
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Using Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this language arts lesson, students listen to the book "Many Luscious Lollipops," in order to become familiar with adjectives. Students create four comic strip squares, using five adjectives in each square, after hearing the book....
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. They create a comic strip based on the characters, setting, and plot of the story, and examine the author's writing process. In small groups...
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Superhero Comic Strip Using Greek and Latin Roots

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create comic strips in groups and explain to the class the Latin and Greek roots of their superhero names. In this Latin and Greek root lesson plan, students get into groups and come up with superhero characters to integrate...
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Playing with Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Try these parts of speech games and activities that will help your learners tackle using correct grammar.
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Comic: Put the Sentences In Order

For Students 4th - 5th
In this comic sentence sequencing activity, learners observe the comic strip with blank bubbles, read the sentences, and fill in the bubbles with the sentences in correct sequence. Students fill in five bubbles.
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Every Day Edit - "Peanuts" Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about "Peanuts" Comic Strip. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal activity to hand out at the beginning of...
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Tobacco Free Teens

For Students 4th - 10th
Clear the smoke about cigarette use with an engaging application. Comic strip animation and games teach learners why they should never try smoking in the first place, and how to quit this lethal habit if they have already been lured in.
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Make a Social Skills Superhero Comic Book

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Get creative as you teach a lesson on positive peer and social interactions. Discuss good social interactions through a scenario, brainstorm a positive response to the scenario, then creat a comic book superhero that exemplifies the...
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Comic Strip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work in groups in order to perform research about the different aspects of immigration. Once they have completed the research a comic strip is created regarding the findings.
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Creating a Comic Strip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine various comic strips for their elements of humour, plot, drawing style, and basic design; they then create their own comic strip.
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Every-Day Edit: Peanuts Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Catch up with the Peanuts gang and correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. Learners will correct errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Calvin and Hobbes Comic

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Calvin and Hobbes worksheet, students make up stories for the Calvin and Hobbes comic. Students view 12 pictures for Calvin and Hobbes.
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Writing and Drawing a Myth

For Students 4th - 6th
In this creating a myth worksheet, students use the comic strip format to write and illustrate how a natural phenomena or custom came to be. Students create 1 myth.
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Charlie Brown and Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Charles Schulz' Charlie Brown and Friends, a collection of Peanuts comic strips, provides young readers with an opportunity to engage in full-class discussions, work in groups to examine how Schulz develops his characters, and...
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Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students find onomatopoeic words, develop a vocabulary list from them, and discuss why writers, especially comic writers, use onomatopoeia. Students use an online tool to create their own comic strips using onomatopoeia.
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Viral Attack

For Students 4th - 8th
Can you catch the same cold twice? Elementary and middle schoolers learn about what happens when a virus attacks their bodies, and how the immune system never forgets a virus, with an entertaining comic book. The packet includes...
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Homophone Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this homophone worksheet, students create a comic strip using 10 homophones, underlining each.
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Writing Directions for Mathematical Activities

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders reorganize comic strips to have them make sense, complete outline and organize their thoughts into outline form to explain directions, and use that outline to complete their own directions for geometry activities.
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Good, Clean Fun!

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Henry the Hand leads youngsters on an exciting adventure through coloring worksheets, word puzzles, and comic strips on everything they need to know about preventing the spread of germs by washing your hands.
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Poetic Justice: Understanding the Life of a Tethered Dog

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Humane Society provides a lesson in which class members explore the issue of tethering dogs. Through the resources used -- a comic, a poem, and narrative and expository writings -- class members realize that messages can be conveyed...