Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing

In reading comic books children are engaging with highly complex and structured narrative forms. Whether they realise it or not, their emergent visual literacy promotes thinking skills and develops wider metacognitive abilities.aUsing Comic Artanot only motivates children to read more widely, but also enables them to enjoy a richer imagined world when reading comics, text based stories and their own written work.

The book sets out a range of practical techniques and activities which focus on various aspects of narrative,

using comic art as a visual organiser for planning writing
openings and endings
identifying with the reader, using different genres and developing characters
creating pace, drama, tension and anticipation
includes OCyKapow!OCO techniques to kick start lessons
an afterword on the learning value of comics.

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