Make Beliefs Comix!: Create Your Own Comic Strip

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Since MakeBeliefsComix.com was launched four years ago, over 2 million people from 175 countries have visited our free educational resource. Google and UNESCO named us as among the world's most innovative web sites that encourage reading and literacy and we won the Parents' Choice Foundation’s Recommended Award.  This year the American Library Association selected MakeBeliefsComix for its annual "Great Web Sites for Kids’’ listing. The site offers 80 different characters, blank talk and thought balloons to be filled in with text, story prompts and printables, and accepts text in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Latin.    

Our site is used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills in an easy, fun way.  It also is used by students in English as a Second Language programs to facilitate self-expression and storytelling, as well as to gain computer literacy.  Some educational therapists use the online comics for children with autism or for those who are deaf to help them understand concepts and communicate. Parents and children also can create stories together, print them to create comic books or email them to friends. There also are printables and writing prompts on the site.