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"Bitstrips For Schools" www.bitstripsforschools.com is a great tool for reluctant writers. Teaching with comics can be used in all classrooms to address any curriculum. The students love it! Please check out the website. It’s free, you just have to sign up and then enter your classes. The teacher is able to view students’ work on their own computer and it’s not posted for everyone to see until the teacher approves and posts it. Students are then able to view what the rest of the class has created. As stated on the site, Bitstrips promotes reading and writing, critical thinking, visual literacy, media literacy, digital storytelling, social skills, and inference-making. There are many lessons on the site, or you can make your own. I’ve attached an assignment that I have used with my Grade Eleven English class at the end of a media unit. The rubric for the assignment follows on the next page. I also show students an example that I have made myself on the site. It's fun for the teacher too! |
