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Take Action Project: Making A Comic Book

Summary:

Students will learn how to write a comic book from professional comic book writer, Regine Sawyer. They’ll learn three strategies professional comic book writers use: creating great characters, designing comic book panels, and using text in comics. Students will enhance their creativity and narrative writing skills while creating an original comic book to teach the reader about a topic or compel them to take action.

Final Project

Create an original comic book that compels others to take action or teaches them about an important topic. Students share their comic book with an authentic audience.

Connections to Other Resources

This take action project is used in the Stop the Invasion full project.

Overview & Materials

Subject: ELA, art, science

Grade: 3-5

Student Handouts (Download)

Materials Needed:

  • Comic book page templates
  • Paper
  • Coloring tools
  • Stapler

Project Materials

Student Lessons

Project Notebook

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • CCRA.W.3.4, 4.4, 5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  • CCRA.W.3.5, 4.5, 5.5: With guidance and support from peer and adults develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
  • CCRA.W.1: RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem)..
  • CCRA.SL.3.4,4.4,5.4: Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

 

National Arts Standards:

  • Anchor Standard #1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
  • Anchor Standard #2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
  • Anchor Standard #3. Refine and complete artistic work.
  • Anchor Standard #5. Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
  • Anchor Standard #6. Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

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