[etni] MakeBeliefsComix Expands Free Writing Prompt Printables to Help ESL, Literacy Students
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- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
MakeBeliefsComixExpands Writing Prompt Printables to Help ESL, Literacy
Students, AddsCharacters with Physical Disabilities��
Dear reader,��
In its goal to provide more literacy resources for
educators,MakeBeliefsComix.com has significantly expanded its offering of
writing promptprintables, organizing them by subject categories to help
students write andexpress themselves.
The free online comic strip generator now features more than 250printables in
50 subject categories, ranging from Bullying and Peer Pressure,to Elections and
Political, to Environment and Ecology, to Writing Prompts. Theseare found at:
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Printables_Categories/
In addition, MakeBeliefsComix has introduced new comic characters withphysical
disabilities to reflect the diversity of users, including those withspecial
needs. Among the 128 characters that students can now select in creatingtheir
comic strips are a boy and girl in wheelchairs, a soldier who lost an armin war
and wears a prosthesis, a blind person with a seeing-eye dog, and anolder woman
who uses a walker. Each character shows a variety of emotions â??happy, sad,
angry, thoughtful. Educationaltherapists increasingly use the online comic
site for students with autismspectrum disorders to help them understand social
concepts and to communicate. There is a Special Needs section tohelp educators
and parents.
The 250 graphic writing prompts encourage writing and thinking in aquick and
imaginative way and foster classroom discussion . A studentâ??s efforts to
complete aprintable can then become the first step in writing longer essays,
poems orstories on the same subject. Theprintables also can be used with
students enrolled in literacy andEnglish-As-Second Language programs, and
provide an educational resource forteaching language arts. They aretaken from
the many interactive books of the siteâ??s creator, Bill Zimmerman, who for
many yearsedited the nationally syndicated Newsday Student Briefing Page, which
was twicenominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
More than 200,000 educators and students from more than 180 countriesvisit
MakeBeliefsComix.com each month to build their own comic strips andpractice
language, writing and reading skills. The site was selected by Google as
UNESCO as among theworldâ??s most innovative sites to encourage literacy and
writing. And the American Library Associationchose it as a Great Web Site for
Kids.
We hope that you will share MakeBeliefsComix.com with your colleagues,students,
friends or readers of your publications and favorite listserv groups.â?¨As
always, we welcome your suggestions and ideas to improve our site.
Sincerely,��
Bill Zimmerman
billz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxâ?¨
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