Comic Lab: Night Noises

A spooky-but-silly four-panel comic for grades 3-5 speech and language. Nora hears a creak, a drip and a loud THUMP at midnight. Students learn comic words (panel, caption, speech and thought bubbles, sound effects), use picture clues to infer what is thumping and how Nora feels, find and use sound words, retell the story in order, name the main idea, match multiple-meaning words and keep a conversation going. Every question, panel and choice can be read aloud.

• A four-panel original comic with read-aloud panels
• 15 scenes: matching, picture-clue questions, highlighting, ordering, drag-in sound words and a sound-word catch game
• Read-aloud on every question, panel and choice
• Hints after every wrong answer and a final score

• Answer when, what and why questions about a comic using words and pictures
• Explain how captions, speech bubbles and thought bubbles add to the story
• Retell a four-panel story in order and name its main idea
• Identify and use sound words (onomatopoeia)
• Use context to choose the meaning of multiple-meaning words
• Keep a conversation going with an on-topic question