One Small Step BEFORE Comic Life

I love using Comic Life, but I haven't been sure about finding a good sequence of lessons and activities leading up to comic life. It's a great evaluation tool, and it can be used to show how students have learned curriculum content, but it seems there needs to be a step to teach students about dialogue...the whole point of comic life!

This might be the answer. National Geographic for Kids has a "try this" page. On this page, there are a bunch of "Back Talk" pictures - these are pictures of animals, some with strange expressions. The animals all have a word bubble where you can (or students can) type in your own saying.

This might be a nice bridge between content and a final project using Comic Life.