6 tools to create educational comics for FREE!

“The use of this technique encourages reading and is used as a method for learning to learn a language” according to the Institute for the Future of Education, Monterrey Technological Observatory.

What is a comic book?

It is a story explained with drawings, vignettes, onomatopoeias and brief text that provides information about what you want to convey, the comic is created with a sequence and can address any topic of interest.

Types of comics

Adventures
Fantastic
Romantics
Humorous
Costumbristas

The use of comics improves mastery of educational topics, as students relate the cartoons to the class topic by identifying words from the context, fostering reading comprehension.

Main elements of a comic book

• Plan: shows the character’s situation
• Representation of the temporal moment: show elements that indicate the day, time and season of the year in which the story is generated.
• Representation of movement: use resources to express movement in drawings.
• Balloons: used to place the dialogue of the characters.

• Onomatopoeias: verbal representation of the environment as noises

• Symbolic resources: elements that help to relate the context, for example the use of a spotlight when you refer to an idea or zzzz refers to the dream.

Benefits of reading a comic book

• Promotes reading in an agile, fun and visual way.
• Promotes reading habits in children and adults.
• Promotes the learning of diverse themes, relating characters with educational topics such as culture, history, science and more.
• Facilitates concentration and memorization in the students.
• Develops imagination and creativity

Tools to create comics

• Powtoon: This is an intuitive tool that helps to create cartoon comic videos.

• Canva: It has more than 2400 comic templates with different context and characters ready to customize.

• Pixton: Create characters with characteristics of your class, choose the hairstyle, clothes, skin tone and even the pose.

• Photo Jet: It has more than 800 ready-to-use templates to create photo comics. In addition to having elements such as images, backgrounds, fonts and more.

• Makebeliefscomix: Allows you to create stories with seasonal templates

• Storyboard: Create stories with ready-to-use elements and backgrounds

Comics are a great tool for developing listening, reading comprehension, writing and writing skills. It is time to integrate it into classes and develop learning in a fun way.