(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Miss Penny and these are the KidVision kids
and we're here today to find out about comic books.
- Fantastic, I'm Miss Melissa and we're here at
Lauderdale Comics where we absolutely love comic
books and would love to tell you all about them.
- Great.
- And I'm Mr Kevin, I love comic books so much that I
read them and I write them and I'd like to introduce
one of my comics to you today, would that be cool?
- [Group] Yes!
- Alright lets go in.
- Wonderful, here we go!
(heroic music)
- What is a comic?
- That's a great question, a comic is a story that's
told in a series of pictures usually companied
with dialog and words in the traditional word bubble.
And the comics utilize a lot of action words.
Oh I love action words, what is an action word?
- It's something that you do.
- What do you think an action word is?
- It's a verb.
It's a verb and it's something that you do.
I want to introduce you to somebody special.
This is Rob and he does art work for KidVision.
- Hi kids I'm gonna draw some action words,
do you like action words?
- [Group] Yes!
- Alright let's draw some, who has a good one?
- Zoom.
- Zoom!
Let's see how we can make that word
- What's the first letter in zoom?
- [Group] Z!
- So what else can we do to this word to make it
more zoom like?
- Oh you can make jagged lines!
- Let's make some jagged lines.
- There you go.
What else could he do?
- Thunder bolts.
- Yeah there you go it looks like it's zooming to me,
any other ideas?
- Stars.
Zoom!
Do you know another action word?
- Yes, Boom!
- So boom is a great action word too.
What's the first letter?
- [Group] B!
- Okay when I think of boom, I think of something
impactful loud sounds right?
- Ooh that looks like a great boom doesn't it?
- [Kids] Yes
- Yeah
- Oh I love it, what's that word?
- [Group] Boom!
- Do you know an action word?
- Pow
- [Penny] What does it start with, what letter?
- [Group] P!
- [Penny] What could you do to that
word to make it look powerful?
- Wiggle lines
- Wiggle lines, and how about stars?
- Yeah
- [Group] Pow!
- Good job, I love those words.
Great words!
Would you like to hear a comic book
and we'll look for the action words in it?
- [Group] Yes.
- Yeah, let's go.
Thank you Rob.
- You're very welcome.
- Wonderful.
(heroic orchestral music)
Okay guys, I brought in The Poodles of Potter's Peak.
I actually wrote this.
Can I read it to you?
- [Group] Yeah.
- Okay.
Five poodles sprang into action
Butterscotchy bounced to the attic,
Montey made a mad dash to the bedroom,
Pinky pranced to the guest room,
Brownie bolts into the kitchen,
and Blacky barreled to the window.
Whitey waited in her closet and tried to find her collar.
What did they see?
Leo Snider trying to get in.
I don't like the looks of that mustache
Poodles, to the living room!
Whitey stays in the closet because she's still afraid
Let's see, we can't call 9-1-1 we don't have fingers
we don't speak human also and we can't let him see us
'cause poodles are so much fun he'd never be scared away.
You know what, I have an idea.
So they went up into the room and they brushed, brushed
Because inside the poodles were brushing and primping
and styling and clipping and teasing as fast as they could.
When Leo finally got in, he was shocked to be met by
a gray rhino, a butterscotch hyena, a pink lion, a brown
warthog, a black bear, and just peeking out of the closet
the most ferocious little white mouse you ever saw.
Well Leo Snider ran away so quickly he was promising
never to be meanie again he was so scared
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
And when Miss Zester got home and she returned with her
chocolate chips, she wondered what had happened
while she was away, but the poodles don't speak human
so they never did tell her.
- Yay.
(clapping)
That was a wonderful book.
Thank you so much.
Isn't it great to have someone read a book to you?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yes, you can go on all kinds of adventures with books.
Now we're gonna talk about the book
that was just read to you by Mr. Kevin.
We're gonna talk about comprehension.
Who knows what comprehension means?
- Reading and remembering.
- Reading and remembering, we were just read to so
now we're gonna remember what we just read.
Okay, so now we have how many characters?
- [Group] One, two, three, four, five, six.
- And how many action words?
- [Group] One, two, three, four, five, six.
- Now we're gonna match the character to its action word.
- What did Blacky do?
- Bolted. - Bolt.
- Bolted, where is the word bolted?
- Number two!
- Okay.
- What did Brownie do?
- Barrel.
- Where's the word barrel?
Montey dashed is that correct?
- [Group] Yes.
- And Whitey waited.
- Whitey waited.
- Pinky pranced.
- Butterscotchy? - Bounced!
- Bounced.
You guys did a good job,
so the characters are nouns.
They're people, places and things and these are all
What kind of..
- People. - People.
Or animals.
- What kind of animals were they?
- [Group] Poodles.
- Poodles.
- And actions words are?
- Verbs.
- Verbs, action words are verbs.
Dashed, bolted, barrelled, waited, pranced--
- Bounced. - Bounced.
Those are all action words, good job.
Now we are going to pick a character,
any character you want.
Pick an action word and we're gonna make our own character.
Would you like to do that?
- Yes!
- And then we're gonna have a KidVision comic book!
(upbeat music)
There are a lot of things that are on a comic book page like
- We have characters, you can have dogs, cats or people
- We also have action words, words like boom, zoom, and pow.
- Wow, yes.
What else is on a comic book page?
- Illustrations
- Illustration - Panels,
- Panels - Numbers.
- And numbers to tell you what page you're on.
So we're gonna get busy and we're all gonna make a page
for a KidVision comic book.
Are you ready?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yeah, let's get busy.
(upbeat music)
- So this is my snake, my powerful snake against a gator.
So they're gonna fight, we don't
know what's gonna happen next.
- Ah so it's a cliff hanger
- Yes.
- I wanna show this picture 'cause it's an example of
everything that we said it was gonna be.
It has panels, it has characters,
it has words and it has numbers.
- This is a tortuga and he starts digging a hole
but we don't know what will happen next.
- Ugh another cliff hanger!
- Let's look at yours let's see what you've drawn.
- I draw me and I made a superhero about me with my cape.
- You are zooming up, that is a great picture.
They just keep getting better and better.
And Rob let's see your words.
- I just did some other action words that we started on.
And then these guys took it to another level
used some of those words and then they added more.
- I decided to make a character
this character was a little bit tired
so he fell down and he went to sleep.
- Thank you so much.
- Oh it was a pleasure.
- It was great to have you read your own book to us.
Very good. - Thank you.
- And thank you so much for sharing your store with us.
- You're very welcome, we're happy to have you all join us.
- [All] Bye!