I would be sharing the benefits of using comics by We Development to get young learners interested in their learning. First, I would like to share more about instructional scaffolding and how it helps to engage visual learners when it comes to learning comprehension texts.
Scaffolding
The process of scaffolding is an important step to get learners to know the passage well. For comprehension, learners have to read the words of the texts paragraph by paragraph in a linear way. Sometimes, trying to elicit interest in the reading process is difficult as an instructor. Common difficulty faced is that the reader may not necessarily understand the story as a whole as there are many characters and dialogues and events in the storyline as the story progresses.
Benefits of scaffold
The idea of breaking down large chunks of information into smaller parts is a good form of scaffold. This is where the method of scaffold in terms of creating comics come in useful. This methodology of breaking down the story frame by frame is useful in storytelling where learners can visualize the beginning, middle and end well. The comics is also good at depicting dialogues between the characters. Here is an example of how the first paragraph of the story can be captured with the four frames.
Introduction
The first frame captures the introductory paragraph where the readers are introduced to the characters James and Mona. In the first frame the story begins with two characters James and Mona and their action “watched the video” and the speech by Mona.
This is the first comics done by WE Development which I believe takes a lot of dedication and passion in the art to deliver outstanding visuals. Their visual aids is timely in communicating with learners as it simplifies a difficult comprehension task. The team make very good behind the scene support and were able to supply this novelty. When I run out of ideas for instructional scaffolding and often just draw manually to illustrate ideas, I have not thought of creating visuals using comics. Thus, I would like to credit the people behind this novelty.
You can find out more about WE Development from their website https://www.wedevelopment.sg/
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