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MarvelKids in Your Classroom

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A comic strip that the author has created. Why Comics?  Comics are fun, easy, and engaging. They normally come with graphics, colorful images, various non-verbal cues (e.g., a facial expression), and speech lines made by the cartoon characters, all of which may make the input not only fun, but also comprehensible. Why MarvelKids? The MarvelKids site has a menu for "Creating your own comics." Creating your own comics can make you effectively be engaged in the activity. Therefore, the MarvelKids website ( http://marvelkids.marvel.com/ ) should be one of the websites that you may want to utilize to facilitate your students' higher-order thinking by leading them to be engaged in the activity and letting them create their own pieces of art. Simple, yet High-quality All you need to do is: (1) go to this link -> http://marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic and, (2) click "Create your own comic."  Then, you can cho...