I’m looking to implement more TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) into my lessons and am looking for a large collection of silent comics that I could mooch off of. Narratives with close to zero text are ideal.
Alternatively, if anyone has any paid recommendations for artists that already have archives of silent comics, that’d help too.
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Edit: For those who wanna step up their ESL game, this video from Bryan’s English Club is a good sample lesson.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5u9ZDRhy0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5u9ZDRhy0)
This 8-page paper by Toru Matsuo breaks down the theory. Share it with your JTEs and peers who are interested. Skip to the English narration in section 5 and you understand how to turn a few interesting pictures into a practical and engaging lesson.
[https://www.eiken.or.jp/center\_for\_research/pdf/bulletin/vol19/vol\_19\_p71-p78.pdf](https://www.eiken.or.jp/center_for_research/pdf/bulletin/vol19/vol_19_p71-p78.pdf)
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I’m sorry, I don’t have any resources to help you with, but I’m very interested to see where you’re going with this. So whenever you are at a point where you feel comfortable sharing what you’re doing and the results publicly, I invite you to do so.
Might be a bit different from what you asked and someone else will probably answer your question, but I have used small kids cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Shaun the sheep in classes before to start conversations and narrating events.
You can pick up the DVD’s pretty cheap and I have a portable DVD player that I got for like 30 bucks off Amazon which can plug into the digital screens they have.
Bonus is the kids know it and it’s entertaining.
[Louder Than Words
by Sergio Aragonés](https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/48-009/Sergio-Aragon-eacute-s-Louder-Than-Words-TPB)
I do something similar to this and have had great success with two webcomics. JHS and HS students love them because they get weird and dark sometimes.
The first is Tu and Ted: [https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/tu-and-ted/list?title_no=168616](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/tu-and-ted/list?title_no=168616)
I unfortunately forgot the name of the second, so I’ll edit this post with a link for that later today when I have a chance to check my file.
Ah damn, I’ll try and find a link but I remember clicking around through some sites from a major publisher and finding books without any text on the images, just underneath them.
Edit: I know it’s probably lower than you are asking for but I also use some of the pages from the Journey Student books for my young students to get them to get into stories.
[https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys2014/na/grk/ese_9780547909134_/vol1/launch.html](https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys2014/na/grk/ese_9780547909134_/vol1/launch.html)
heres a digital link to the early stuff book but I’ll try to find the other more advanced stuff later.