NEW! USE MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX RESOURCES TO TEACH SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) SKILLS

Deploying Comix to Help Develop Character: A Sampler

Dear reader,

The comic resources found throughout our web site can be valuable for your efforts to teach social and emotional learning (SEL) skills to students to help them become more caring, confident individuals who can succeed in school, work and life.   These interactive creative tools can be used to encourage self-awareness, self-management, social awareness or empathy, relationship skills and responsible decision making.

This page provides a sampler of some of the resources found on MakeBeliefsComix which you can explore for your SEL work.

1. CREATE YOUR OWN SEL COMICS WITH MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX:

When you teach a subject, such as empathy, why not create your own comic in which a character asks a writing prompt question that a student can respond to whether by writing, by creating their own comic or by discussing.   Here is an example of how you might use this based on something in the news:

2. PRINTABLES:

In listing our subject categories in the printables section , we have marked as (SEL) those categories of printables that can be used with students for Social-Emotional Learning work.

3. FREE E-BOOKS!:

The free interactive e-books that can be easily downloaded here encourages readers to express their deepest thoughts and feelings through a variety of friendly graphic writing prompts. Students can type directly from their digital devices onto the digital pages of the books.

4. USE OUR COMIC STARTERS TO BEGIN CONVERSATIONS:

Take a look at oour different comic starter features. These comic prompts cover a variety of material to help youngsters explore their inner most thoughts and feelings.

We hope the suggestions on this page get you started in your SEL work and welcome your thoughts and suggestions to improve what we are doing in social and emotional learning. Send your feedback to billz@makebeliefscomix.com Please share our site with your colleagues and professional groups.

Thank you.
Bill Zimmerman
Creator, MakeBeliefsComix