Activities with comic strips: reading, interpreting and understanding the text

We selected in this post several Activities with comic strips ready to print and work with students from initial series.

These are excellent suggestions for working in the classroom or as a homework assignment.

What are comic strips?

A comic strip (also called a comic strip or comic strip/comic strip) is the Portuguese equivalent of the English term comic strips, which refers to a possible comic strip presentation, characterized by a series of vignettes, published regularly (usually daily or weekly) in newspapers, magazines and more recently on websites (webcomics).

It is structured in short statements, and brings a content in which criticism predominates, with humor, in ways of behavior, values, feelings, highlighting, therefore, in this composition, verbal codes and non-verbal.

Printable activities

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Reading and Interpreting Activities with Comics

Look carefully at the cartoon and read the comics:

UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION

1. The cartoon, by Caulos, shows us two people.
   a) What are they doing?
   b) How do we know this?
2. What does the fitting of the speech bubbles suggest, considering the situation the cartoon shows?
3. Compare the balloons in the cartoon with the balloons in the comic book.
   What do comic book balloons have that cartoon balloons don't?
4. In the 1st comic in Monica's history, someone calls her a toothy.
   a) How does she react to this in the 2nd comic?
   b) Why do you think she reacted like that?
   c) What would she probably do if the author of the sentence was Cebolinha?
5. In the last comic, Mônica surprises the reader with her reaction. Give her a reason why she didn't react as we expected.
6. In the comics, although the balloons are separated, how do we know that there is communication between Mônica and the character Titi?
7. In the cartoon, the puzzle pieces fit together perfectly. Associate the pieces of the puzzle with communication and indicate in your notebook the alternative that correctly completes the statement
   Next.
   For communication to take place it is necessary:
   a) that one person has a lot of patience with the other.
   b) that one of the people is very smart.
   c) that one person understands what the other says.
   d) that one of the people is sensitive and critical.
8. If in the cartoon the pieces of the puzzle didn't fit together, what would that mean?
9. In the cartoon, one puzzle piece fitting perfectly into the other symbolizes the
   Communication. A piece of Lego fitting into another, a game tape being introduced
   in a video game or a boy kissing a girl could also represent communication.
   What other symbols do you suggest to represent communication?

Answers:

1) a) Talking
b) By speech bubbles.
2) That they are getting along.
3) Words.
4) a) she was furious and went to get satisfaction.
b) Because she thought it was Cebolinha.
c) Battery on it.
5) She must like Titi.
6) Because of the balloon's extension to the side panel.
7) c) that one person understands what the other is saying.
8) That they are not communicating.
9) Personal Response

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Read the comic:

The humor of the comic takes place

A) the educational content of the program Mafalda watches on television.
B) of their mistaken understanding of the television message.
C) unwanted advice given by the TV show host.
D) Mafalda's sadness for having forgotten that it was her father's day.
E) Mafalda's exact understanding of the program's message.

Activities with comic strips for text production

Comic Strip Activities – Word Formation

Check out these Cartoon Activities to work on word formation. Excellent exercises with feedback.

1 – Observe the word mosquito in the comic and answer:

What is the formation process of this word?

2 – The text below is an excerpt from a poem from Brazilian Arcadianism.

"I don't know, Marília, that I have,
After I saw your face;
Because how much is not Marília,
I can no longer see with taste.
At another age I was happy,
Even when I talked
With the rudest cowboy:
Today, O Beauty, bothers me
Still the flattering deal
From the most discreet pastor.”
[…]

(GONZAGA, Thomas. In: MOSES, Massud. Brazilian literature through texts. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1977. P. 64-65)

A) The word cowboy (verse 7) was formed by derivation:
a) Prefix
b) Suffix
c) Parasynthetic
d) Inappropriate

B) What is the primitive word that originated it?

C) The word flattering (v. 9), means one who flatters, who pleases someone. It was formed by suffix derivation, through the suffix -eiró, which, among others, presents the idea of ​​craft, occupation, profession. Using the same suffix and the idea contained therein, form new derived words.

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Answers:

1. Stilt is a compound word (leg+long), therefore, a composition, and since it lost a phonetic element in its formation, it is a composition by agglutination.

2.a) By means of the suffix -eiro added to the word vaca, the word vaqueiro was formed, being therefore the correct option, letter B

b) As mentioned in the previous question, the primitive word that gave rise to the word vaqueiro is cow.

c) The suffix -eiro is very productive in our language, words like garbage man, baker, ice cream maker, engineer, bricklayer, are some examples of derived words that add the idea of ​​craft, occupation.

Activities with a varied strip

Goals:

• Perceive the strip as a form of expression;
• Produce short texts, through strips;
• Introduce Brazilian cartoonist Maurício de Sousa;
• Develop a taste for reading and writing;
• Explore creativity;
• Identify phonemes;
• Watch the spelling;

prior knowledge

• Reading;
• text interpretation more
• elementary;
• Know how to produce short texts;

Strategies and Resources

I moment: Presentation of the cartoonist

Biography Mauricio de Sousa

II moment Distribution of several strips for each student to read and understand the message;

III Moment Distribute half of a card with three pictures for each student to make a funny strip.

IV Moment Take the student to the computer lab to make his comic strip on the computer.

Assessment

• Analysis and individual recording of each activity;
• Exhibition of the work carried out;