Process

Intended audience: Grade two (ages 7-9)

Target age was dicult due to the content of the story
We wanted a mul@cultural book

We wanted to make it Canadian content

Conict: something we hadnt read in class

Language was dicult

- A lot of tweaking involved on that part

Process (Cont.)
One focus: crea@ng a book for children who speak English
as a second language
Relatable topic for students
- relatable seNng
- relatable issue

Comic book inspira@on
Aim: meaningful message that students could learn from

The use of many illustra@ons; self-explanatory pictures

Illustra@ons
Sketches were developed by Sarah

Group as a whole got together to do the
coloring
- Pencil crayons
- Photoshop to improve the colors of the
illustra@ons

Ac@vity for the Book

Ac@vity Experience
Children were able to relate to the main character (Aiko)
Grade 2 students: Understand and grasp the concept of
spelling tests
Looking at the images(rela@ng to the scrabbled words) made
it easier for students (especially L2)
French speaking students, at higher level than intended
audience, can easily grasp the overall message of the story
All the children enjoyed geNng involved in the book (doing
the spelling test like Aiko)
Children responded well to the glossary and the images