Webinar:
Language Acquisition
Intro
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Best Practice #1 — Create the Scene
Use Pixton to help students to demonstrate reading comprehension in the target language. Provide dialogue and vocabulary and allow students to create a visual representation of the scene with Pixton. See the handout for instructions, activity variations, and differentiation strategies.
Best Practice #2 — Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow
Review verb forms and provide verb charts as needed to ensure students can express past, present, and future tenses. Have students select an activity and create a three-panel comic, with each panel captioned in a different tense. See the handout for instructions, activity variations and differentiation strategies.
Best Practice #3 — Comics Jigsaw
Write several dialogues and divide each into segments so that every student receives a part. Have students locate others with matching segments and work together to illustrate the complete dialogue. See the handout for instructions, activity variations and differentiation strategies.
Recap
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Associated Research
Derrick, J. (2008). Using comics with ESL/EFL students. The Internet TESL Journal, 14(7).
Ortiz Orellana, X.G. & Mena Mayorga, J.I. (2021). Pixton as a digital teaching tool to encourage the writing skill. Ciencia Digital, 5(3), 20–35.
Sadik, A. (2008). Digital storytelling: A meaningful technology-integrated approach for engaged student learning. Education Technology Research Development, 56, 487–506.
