All About Me Comic Project

Kick off the beginning of the school year with an “All About Me” activity your students will LOVE!

This comic-making project is designed for 4th, 5th, and 6th-grade students and makes the perfect back-to-school activity.

Students will create their own colorful comic about themselves, giving you a fun and insightful way to get to know your new class. With three different comic templates, teacher tips, and a detailed rubric, this activity is both engaging for students and easy for you to implement.

Low-prep and print-and-go, it’s an exciting way to start building classroom community from day one!

What’s Inside this All About Me Comic-Style project?

All About Me Visual Instructions-

• Print-and-go comic prompting students with ideas
• Illustrated instructions making the project accessible to a wider range of reading levels
• Immediately engaging
• Color and black-line provided

Comic Templates

• Three different All About Me templates allowing you to EASILY differentiate the project.
• Students create their own “All About Me” comic
• Display finished comics throughout the classroom or create a class comic book!

Rubric

• Simplifies your grading process
• Clearly explains the requirements of the project
• Easy for students to follow

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What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?

They are FUN! 

• This is the most crucial benefit.
• Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
• The content STICKS.

Visual learning is EFFECTIVE. 

• About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
• Visual information is processed faster.
• Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.

EASY to implement! 

• These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
• You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
• Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.

ACTIVE LEARNING

• Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
• Instructions are in a visual format
• Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included

Comics make content ACCESSIBLE

• Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
• Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
• They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
• Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
• Comics help English Language Learners (ESL, ELL) and some SPED students find success.

Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!