Creating Comics with Wixie
Comics are a powerful way for students to combine reading, writing, and art. The multimodal combination of dialogue bubbles, narration, and visuals helps students understand and remember content, whether they're retelling a story, explaining a science concept, or sharing knowledge about the world around them.
Publishing comics digitally or in print connects students with a real audience, increasing engagement, motivation, and ownership of learning.
Creating comics also helps students think critically about sequencing, summarizing, and visual storytelling. As students make choices about what to show, how to depict actions or emotions, and how to communicate ideas clearly and efficiently, they strengthen comprehension, narrative development, and creative expression.
Creating comics with Wixie, makes learning meaningful, memorable, and fun.
Retell and summarize stories
Instead of writing a paragraph, students create a comic to capture the main events, dialogue, and emotions of a story. This lets them show understanding visually and verbally, reinforcing comprehension while fostering creativity.
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Wixie comic panels template
Illustrate cycles and processes
From water cycles to historical events, ask students to create comic sequences of steps or cause-and-effect scenarios, making complex or abstract ideas easier to understand and remember.
Teach others with how-to comics
Give students an audience for their work and ownership of their learning by asking them to create informational comics, how-to guides, or tutorials on topics they have mastered.
Teach others and share knowledge
As students create comics to explain a topic, they build clarity, organization, and confidence in the content themselves.
Explore social-emotional skills
Comics are a safe space for students to model positive behavior, empathy, problem-solving, and conflict resolution. This visual form of storytelling makes social-emotional lessons relatable and memorable.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Leprechaun
We had so much fun writing leprechaun comics today! @CopperHillES @FlemRarSchools #wixie pic.twitter.com/3iJ35Scf7X
— Jeff Moore (@MooreClassroom) March 10, 2023 -
Comprehension Comics
Using Wixie to show how characters change over time. ???? pic.twitter.com/0hIOOslwRY
— Mrs. Crump (@MrsCrumpCWES) October 13, 2021 -
Historical Comics
5th graders created historical graphic novels on Wixie! Their creative skills are amazing! @HolabirdSTEM @BCPSLMP @vkearns_M @MrsBallardHSP pic.twitter.com/wkXBapUy9h
— Amy Levengood (@Levengood_reads) May 28, 2021 -
Digital Storytelling
Collaborated with our rockstar librarian @jclough22 on a lesson using @Tech4Learning! Kindergarten students used Wixie to make their own story including setting and characters. Ss were so engaged while creating their story! @ShelleyPohzehl @KarenEHaddock @ScottLoomis @PWCSNews pic.twitter.com/AUknH9pxGN
— Mrs. Strauss (@mrs_strauss22) May 18, 2022 -
Plant Super Power
If a plant had super powers� being creative and critical thinkers by creating books on Wixie @Tech4Learning
— Kaylin Daniels (@TechyDaniels) February 27, 2023
Today we learned how to use the speaking tool to help us type our sentences. pic.twitter.com/Ui2M7FYmA4 -
Fractured Fairy Tale Comics
Second grade Ss publishing fractured fairy tale comic books! @Tech4Learning #wixie @espillone101 pic.twitter.com/vsDWi0ytTC
— Vickie Antonsen (@VickieAntonsen) April 16, 2021 -
Retelling
??The Cromwell Comic Book Company has printed their first editions of �The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud� Wixie retells and shipped them to their homes! @gaylor_linda @Tech4Learning @BCPS_ELA @CathyThomasBCPS @samyuhanick pic.twitter.com/tEhe3gIpY6
— Cromwell Valley Elem (@CromwellValleyE) December 11, 2020 -
PBL Products
Using Wixie Comics to enhance our PBLs. Wait, did you know that tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day? @Freecomicbook @Canterbury_Wood pic.twitter.com/UV3XgJhlEI
— Mrs. Crump (@MrsCrumpCWES) May 3, 2019 -
Creative Writing
#Wixie is perfect for creative comic writing! @LCPSLegacy #lcps19 pic.twitter.com/3Ra2bmnNc5
— Logan McIntosh (@JLoganMcIntoshV) October 4, 2018 -
Connect to Literature
Using Wixie + knowledge of dialogue and events to build James and the Giant Peach comic strips! #labsleadtheway pic.twitter.com/cyEjjkUlgR
— Samantha Amato (@MrsAmatoMCES) May 1, 2015
