Title – Comic Book Interdisciplinary Unit

By – Sandra Caputo

Primary Subject – Math, Language Arts

Grade Level – 3 and up

Note from LessonPlansPage.com:

In December, substitute books about the holidays (how many candles needed to fill five Menorrahs, how many gifts needed for the seven days of Kwanzaa, Twelve Days of Christmas – how many birds were received in the Twelve Days of Christmas song, and don’t forget

The Night Before Christmas

with eight tiny reindeer with how many hooves?) Fairy tales like the

Three Little Pigs

would work well too!

Subjects:

• Reading
• Writing
• Arithmetic (Word Problems)

Materials:

• Comic Books
• Paper
• Crayons

Description of Activity:

Students peruse comic books set out for them, or one’s from their own collection, with the intent to revise the story line to include numerical information. They will use this numerical information to create their own word problems that will be solved by their peers.

Directions to the students:

1. Pick a comic book. Read the comic book that you have chosen.

2. Rewrite the basic story line in a paragraph adding numerical information.

3. Write five story questions (word problems) that your partner could answer using the numerical information you’ve added to the text.

   Sample rewrite and question:
   

   
   Spiderman left his place of work at 3:45 pm and walked for 45 minutes to see his girlfriend, Mary Jane. What time did he arrive at Mary Jane’s apartment?
   

4. Draw a picture of the story segment the word problem reflects.
   

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