Creative Writing Create a Comic Book Hero Activities 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Telling students they're going to do "creative writing" can result in panic. Not with this fun lesson that has great graphics, fabulous graphic organizers, and an engaging partner activity.

This lesson is made up of three activities that culminate in the students' creating a comic book. Students will work together to learn a variety of character traits to use to create a comic book hero. Then they will imagine how this champion could save the world. Finally, students will use illustrations and speech bubbles to create a comic book of an adventure starring their superhero.

One thing I think you'll like is that I sought out superhero clipart with superheroes of color so all students feel connected and included.

Included in this Create a Comic Book Creative Writing Resource:

✅ "Let's Create a Comic Book Hero" student instructions sheet in color and black/white

✅ Teacher instructions and procedures
✅ Character trait cards in color and black/white

✅ Create a hero graphic organizer (so cute!)
✅ Create a hero writing page
✅ Problem and Solution Planning Page
✅ Comic Book Sequence Page
✅ Comic Book Planning Page
✅ "My Hero Comic" student instructions
✅ Comic book templates
✅ Rubric

Your upper-elementary, middle school, or junior high language arts students will love these activities!

Let's find out more about the activities!

★ ACTIVITY 1: CREATE A SUPERHERO PARTNER ACTIVITY

In this activity, students will work in partners to lean more about character traits. They'll take a turn selecting a card and reading the character trait listed on the card. Then they will think of a synonym that means the same as the word listed on the card. If they do not know what the word means or cannot think of a word that is a synonym, they should use a dictionary to look it up. Then they will create a superhero and decide on character traits to describe him or her. Look at all the standards!!!
★ ACTIVITY 2: SAVING THE WORLD INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY

In this activity, students will think of big world problems. Students will write write a problem in each of the boxes on a graphic organizer. Then they will write one character trait for each problem and describe how the superhero can solve that problem being motivated by that trait. Then students will select problems and solutions to use in their adventure. They'll plan a sequence of events and how the problems and solutions lead to one another. Then they will plan out the adventure's beginning, middle, and end.

★ ACTIVITY 3: WRITING A COMIC BOOK INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY

Using graphic organizers, students will create a comic book. Students will carefully illustrate the story in sequence order. Then students will add dialogue in the form of speech bubbles to bring the story to life.

Low-Prep Includes:
✂️Copies (you may cut some yourself or have students cut them
✂️Students need scissors, dictionaries, and thesauri

You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable activities, and a rubric. The teacher directions are so detailed! You will have very clear, step-by-step instructions for what to do to teach the activity.

You'll find this resource is perfect for fifth grade, sixth grade, middle school, and junior high school students.

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐

This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on these traits:

☀️ Imagination - the ability to build mental pictures and visualize possibilities

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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