Comic Writing Activities Engaging Creative Writing Lesson | No Prep & Digital

Does writing time have you and your students groaning? You can turn writing into a fun and engaging activity that will have your students asking, " Is it time for writing yet!?"

Comics are engaging for kids and adults alike, and now you can help your students learn to love writing with Comic Writing Activities! This is a fun and creative way to teach your students the writing process!

After learning all about what it takes to create a comic, they will go through the brainstorming process, rough draft, editing, and finally make a comic! There is a huge variety of templates to make comic strips, full pages, and comic books!

The comics students create are entirely up to you, but for example, a superhero theme is used, making it a great addition to a superhero unit!

The entire comic writing unit is available in the following versions:

➀ NO PREP: Just print! Black and white to save on ink!

➁ Color: For a more vibrant lesson or for classroom posters/centers.

➂ Digital: to be used with Google Classroom!

⚞THIS UNIT WAS LAST REVISED AND ADDED TO IN MARCH 2024⚟

Cover:✏️

✅Parts of a comic

✅Sequencing

✅Setting

✅Adjectives

✅Dialogue

✅Using quotation marks

✅Onomotopoeia

✅Character traits

✅Brainstorming

✅Speech bubbles

✅Narration boxes

✅Rough draft writing

✅Editing

✅Making a comic page or book!

Included in this product: (⭐=added to March 2024)

◼️Interactive table of contents for printing only pages you need!⭐

◼️Editing Bookmarks

◼️Comic Vocab: Learn about common comic terms and elements.

◼️Comic Comprehension: Answer questions about a comic page and label.

◼️Super Sequence: Write the correct order of the panels and then rewrite to have the comic be in the right order. ⭐

◼️Super Setting: Pick one of the 3 images and describe it in great detail.

◼️Spin A Setting: Using a paperclip and pencil, make a spinner, and then write a short paragraph describing one of the 9 settings in detail⭐

◼️Amazing Adjectives: Pick three adjectives to describe your main character then write a short paragraph describing them.

◼️Daring Dialogue: Learn what dialogue is and practice writing your own.

◼️Comic Convo: Read the sentences then rewrite using quotation marks and other punctuation. ⭐

◼️Quotation Marks: Practice adding quotation marks where they belong.

◼️Sound Simulator: Learn about onomatopoeia words and then think of as many sound words as possible!⭐

◼️Onomatopoeia Origin: Practice writing and drawing sound shapes on a comic page using at least 5 onomatopoeia words.⭐

◼️Time for Traits: Using the graphic organizer, draw or write your main character and then 8 character traits that they have. ⭐

◼️Brainstorming Pages: 2 brainstorming pages

◼️Writing and drawing pages for the following and available in 4 different options! ✍

Choose between wide primary lines, thin primary handwriting lines, thin lines, or drawing-only pages!

• Hero Draft
• Villain Draft
• Setting
• Problem
• Solution

◼️Speech Bubbles: Practice writing dialogue on speech bubbles.

◼️Narration Boxes: Learn what narration boxes are and practice writing on them.

◼️Speech Bubbles: Predrawn speech bubbles students can write on, cut out, then paste to a comic.

◼️20 full page comic templates⭐

◼️3 pages of comic strips

◼️5 pages of foldable comic book

⭐ Digital Version: The digital portion has been COMPLETELY redone and now is even more engaging with moveable elements, fun landscape slides, easy directions so students can do things a bit more independently, and much more!⭐

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