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LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR coloring sheets and comics!
Have fun coloring and creating your own dialogue for the comics with these printable pages…
Educator’s Guide for LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR!!
Thanks for using LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR in your classroom. Rebecca Kraft Rector and I (Shanda McCloskey) hope you will find something useful inside these activities to enrich learning for your students. This GUIDE includes …
Reading & Writing Activities (with Printables!!)
1, 2, 3! Sequencing!
Similes, Cool as Cucumbers
Story Predictions
Write a Thank You Letter
Fractured Fairy Tales – Compare & Contrast
Finish the Twisted Tale of “Slipping Beauty”
Write Your Own Fractured Fairy Tale
The Critique Sandwich
Complete the Comic (your way)
Artful Activities (with Printables!)
How To Draw a Pencil
Draw a Delicious Writing Snack
Handwriting Practice
Cursive Handwriting Practice
Make a Map of Red’s Journey
Coloring Pages
My Daughter Did Something Brave
| Today, my 12 year old opened her first online business with RedBubble to sell her art designs on various merch! She has one design so far, but buyers can get it on shirts, bags, pillows, phone cases, etc. She hopes the sales will help her to start saving for a car (which she will need in 5 years). But as any creative soul knows all too well, putting your art (aka your heart) out there in the world is a very vulnerable and brave thing to do. And the very first response she got from a friend this morning was, “why is everything so expensive?”. That little comment from a particularly close friend crushed her. She immediately felt dumb for even trying. Man, it flew all over me as a parent and an artist. No wonder living a creative life is so hard. You have to believe in yourself. Be near others that believe in you too. Hugs, my creative friends!Check out her store for yourself and feel free to comment and send some words of encouragement for her. I’ll read her every one! |
| Check out Harvey’s Store! |
A Robot Changed My Life
Graphic Novels: A Brain Workout
I didn’t grow up reading comics. I am a new lover of the comic medium. When I found stories AND informational books in comic form, I fell in love.
But it wasn’t super easy to read at first. My brain was used to reading prose, so it took me a minute each time I opened a graphic novel to recalibrate to this form of reading. Kids seem to read comics so effortlessly, but my adult brain can tell you that there’s a lot going on up there when you read a graphic novel!
Have you (grown ups) tried one yet? I’m telling you – it’s a great brain workout!
And I’m not just making this stuff up…
“Traditional text is limited to presenting the same information sequentially. But when we read comics, we simultaneously interpret a multitude of visual information such as setting, mood, time, emotion, dialogue, and action.” (Read the full article here.)
My Favorite Informational Comics:
My Favorite Story Comics:
Grownups, I hope you’ll try a graphic a graphic novel THIS summer! If you do, you’ll appear much cooler (than you already are) to the kids in your life!
If you are already a reader of graphic novels, what’s YOUR favorite one to date? Comment below! I’d love to know.
