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Reading the Page: Panels & Layout

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  • 34 marks
  • about 40 minutes
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Which of these BEST describes what a comic is?

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Comic Creator — Lesson 1 of 6. What a comic is, how panels and gutters work, how we read a page (left to right, top to bottom), and how a layout controls reading order and which moment feels biggest. Pupils finish by laying out a 3-beat story from a page layout template in the Comic Strip Studio.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — Nobody Told You
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. What Is a Comic?
  5. Quick Check — Panels
  6. Panels and Gutters
  7. The Gutter — What It Is and What It Is Not
  8. Reading Order — Which Way Does the Eye Go?
  9. Task 1 (guided) — Panel, Gutter or Layout?
  10. Hinge Check — Which Order?
  11. Page Layout vs Strip Layout
  12. Task 2 (semi-guided) — Choose the Layout
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