Re: curious about using Comics

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You might want to look at Carol Gray's book entitled Comic Strip

Conversations.

Comic Strip Conversations

Author: Carol Gray

Trade Paperback

ISBN:1885477228

Published: January 1994

$14.50 CAN

Toby

Guelph, ON

[ ] Curious about using comics

> Yesterday I bought a couple of comic books for my son, taking advantage of

> his new interest in Spiderman since the recent movie. He was too young to

> see the first one, but now that he's seen them both he's very excited. I

> remember loving comics when I was a kid and I shared that with my brother

> and some other boys at my school. So I bought Kaleb a Spidy comic and a

> Superman/Batman comic, featuring Wonder Woman (Yeah!).

>

> Anyway, I was quite surprised to find that he had a very hard time with

it.

> He didn't seem to understand what was going on, and couldn't tell me what

> happened in it later. He has very good reading skills, and his

> comprehension is just about age level, with difficulty in inferencing, of

> course. So I read them again, this time through his eyes. I realized

that

> comic books are quite complicated and do require quite a bit of work for

> kids like ours. You have to understand the difference between talking

> bubbles and thinking bubbles, and that even when they think something, the

> other people can't read them like the reader can. There is also a lot of

> visual cues that aren't explicit - expressions change the meaning of their

> words, just like real people. And you are almost always " coming in the

> middle " . Unless you happen to get issue #1 of a series and follow it all

> the way through, there will be gaps in the story that are hard for our

kids

> to fill on their own - or just cope with.

>

> So despite this difficulty he's having, I'm actually quite excited about

> embracing comics and using them as another way to teach these very skills

> that will help him outside the comic-con life! :-) Does anyone else have

> such experience in using them or have any ideas?

>

> -Karla

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[Guest guest]

Hi, I use comics all the time with one child I work with. His favorite is

Captain Underpants Attack of the Talking Toilets. You can do a lot of things

with comics. I usually read them then do an activity involving them. With

Captain Underpants I found a website Pilkey.com that has online games and print

out activities. We also do a google search (image search) and talk about

various pictures we get from the search. Then we print them out and make a

small

book. Other things we do is cut out printed pictures, glue them to popsicle

sticks, and make puppets out of them. We make our own cartoon adventures

this way. Have fun, Christy J.