Creating Comic Books or Comic Strips to Demonstrate
Comprehension or Practice Vocabulary Fatima Elmouchtari
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What Are the Benefits Of Comic Books Or Comic Strips? O Memory
and Recall O Lasting O Retrieval O Understanding O Reading
Comprehension O Connecting With the Reading O Fun O Students
engaged O Motivation
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How can brain-based research help materials developers? O By
knowing the Memory Pathways, educators can adopt, adapt, and
develop materials that will help students retrieve the material
learned. O Memory and recall are important in the education.
Because, we know that students have learned something when they
demonstrate recall of it (Jensen, 2005, p. 99). O Students can
retrieve most everything, that they paid attention to. But the
accuracy and quantity of the information retrieved depends on the
state, time, and context used. O The knowledge of the brain based
research guide teachers to find a system to help students to
retrieve the memory learned.(p. 104).
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Definitions O Memory Process: The creation of a persistent
change in the brain by a transient stimulus. (Jensen, 2005, p. 100)
O Recall: Is the access of the information that was previously
recorded and encoded in the brain. Recall is most know as
remembering. O Retrieval: The function of reaching a memory that
was previously encoded in the brain. O Chunks: Single thoughts,
ideas, or groups of related ideas.
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Implicit vs Explicit Memories Implicit Memory Explicit Memory O
We know it, but dont know we know it (p. 107). Implicit memory is
the unconscious memory that we encode based on our life experience.
O Based on recent researchers, the explicit memory is the one we
can write about, describe, and explain. Therefore, the explicit
memory is the most used at school for teaching and assessing their
learned materials. O Hippocampus and stored in the Medial Temporal
Lobes.
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Implicit vs Explicit
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Understanding O Reading Comprehension O Demonstrate their
understanding O Summarization O Transfer text to images O
Incorporate the most important information of the text O
Connections: O Personal experience. O Background. O Their own
culture, ethnicity, race O Incorporation of important fact O
Culture O History O Plot O Reader connecting with the text
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Vocabulary Practice Formal Assessment
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Connection
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Reading Comprehension Comic Life Google images Drawing
Captions
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Let Begin From the End List the most important facts Questions
about The time period Culture Historical event Characters Have
students find connections with the reading And themselves Other
reading in class Movies Medias . How can I guide students to
incorporate all the important information into their cartoon
strips?
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Let begin from the end. What are the 5 most important themes
that you want your students to acknowledge? Please write them in
order; start with the most important theme. What is the time period
of the reading? Any cultural background is included in the reading?
Which one/ones ? Any historical event you want students to
acknowledge? Any important characters you want your students to pay
close attention? Do you want them to make connections with.?