Comic and Hot Potatoes as Teaching Reading

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There are so many media to create an interactive teaching reading. Comic and hot potatoes are kind of media that make teaching reading more fun and creative. Of course, this kind of media is the new innovation for teachers that is used to teach reading skill using technology. As we know, today's children are more familiar with technology, so with the media comics and hot potatoes, it is easier for them to read. What's more, the lack of literacy in today's children is because the readings given are too boring for them or too many texts. With comics and hot potatoes, they will not feel bored quickly when reading the text, which is short, concise and clear. Nowadays, teaching using technology will be more impressive than just giving students a lot of reading.

By reading comics students will get visual references as well as the feeling of relax and thus makes the reading activity more enjoyable. For make your own reading activities using comics, you can visit the websites listed below :

• Toondoo
• Chogger
• Pixton

Hot Potatoes is an easy to use authoring tools that can be used to create different web-based learning activities. For make reading activities using hot potatoes, you can download the hot potatoes software first (this is the link for download the software). Then, you can use that software to create your own hot potatoes.

And now, I will give you an example of comics and hot potatoes which has been made by me and my friend. You can click here for the example of comic and click here for the example of hot potatoes. happy trying everyone!