TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Subject Writing
Content Knowledge

Grade Level Third Grade

Learning 3.9 The student will write for a variety of purposes. c) Write a clear topic sentence focusing
Objective on the main idea. f) Include details that elaborate the main idea.
3.10 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and
Spelling.
3.12 The student will use available technology for reading and writing.
Activity This activity will engage students in their writing development. Students will create a
short comic in which they tell about their favorite vacation. The teacher will talk about
current writing objectives that have been discussed in the previous days. Teacher will
then show her comic example and explain what a comic is. The website the students will
be using is
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html . Students
can create a comic on this website with their choice of
 Background/setting
 Characters
 Items
 Speech balloons and text
Pedagogy

Technology Students will be using a free website

Techn
ology

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html
Where they will be able to tell their story using a comic strip.
 Directions 1. Click on “e” to open the internet
for Use 2. Type the url
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html into
the search bar and hit enter.
3. Name your comic as your name with the subtitle On Vacation. Ex: Heather W.
(comic name) On Vacation (subtitle)
4. Select a 6 panel comic strip.
5. Begin your comic by selecting backgrounds with the up and down arrows on the
right.
6. Next add to your comic by dragging items (people, speech balloons, animals…etc.)
to your comic panel.
7. Enter text inside your speech balloons and add main captions of the comic panel on
the caption line below the panels.
8. Once finished with a comic panel click the right arrow at the top of the panel to go
to the next panel. You may go back and forth through panels to look at what you
have created already.
9. When done with all 6 panels, you should click finish and print.
10. Remember, if you are stuck to raise your hand and I will be by to help!!
Link to the Is below underneath table.
example
product

file:///C:/Users/twood/OneDrive/Documents/ODU/TLED%20430/ReadWriteThink_%20Student%20M
aterials_%20Comic%20Creator.pdf