Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips

Materials and Technology

Student Interactives

Printouts

Websites

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Any of the following Laura Joffe Numeroff picture books: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Party, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Take a Mouse to School, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
  
  
• Computers with Internet access and printer(s)
  
  
• Notebook paper, white paper, colored pencils, crayons, fine tip markers
  
  
• Document projector and screen

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STUDENT INTERACTIVES

Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose

Comic Creator

The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

 

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PRINTOUTS

• Comic Strip Checklist
  
  
• Comic Strip Rubric
  
  
• Comic Strip Template

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WEBSITES

• Comic Life

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PREPARATION

1. Gather your selection of Laura Joffe Numeroff picture books and familiarize yourself with the various cause-and-effect relationships in each book.
   
   
2. If you want students to use the interactive tools Comic Creator or Comic Life, review and bookmark the tool on the computers the students will be using. If you’d prefer to provide students with a preprinted template, go to the Comic Strip Template, select and print a template, and make the appropriate number of copies for students.
   
   
3. Review the Comic Strip Checklist and the Comic Strip Rubric. Print out one copy of each for every student.

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