Comic Description Worksheets
Make writing lessons more engaging with these printable comic strip worksheets. They’re great for practicing creative writing, dialogue, and storytelling in the classroom or at home.
Once you’ve given the students a copy, make sure to ask questions about the comic strip – not only to elicit English speaking responses but to check they have the required vocabulary for the task. Questions like “In picture 4, where is the boy?”, Do they know the word barrel? Or perhaps “What is the goose doing in picture 3?” to elicit the word chase. The whole idea is to best prepare students for the writing task.
You could also show a different comic strip and give them a writing example. Alternatively, you could demonstrate a comic description on the board with the whole class giving suggestions before moving onto individual writing.
Make sure students are as descriptive as possible. For example, in the comic strips with the boy, ask what the boy looks like, how old he is, what he is wearing, what the weather is like, and anything else that comes to mind.
For strip number one above, be sure to provide words such as these before they begin writing – barrel, shoo, roll, crash, break, and chase.
Comic Strip 2
This strip involves a boy digging a hole, his hat blows away, and when he finally gets it back, a cow eats it.
Useful vocabulary for this worksheet includes: cow, blow, fence (barbed wire), shovel, dig, and hole.
Be sure to get the students to fill in the speech bubble in the last picture. What did the boy say to the cow?
Comic Strip 3
In comic strip 3, a boy decides to climb a barn roof before sliding down. He lands in a haystack before bouncing onto a pig that takes him for a ride.
Useful words for writing about this strip are barn, ladder, roof, hay, haystack, slide, and land. The boy also says betcha ( I bet you) in the strip.
Comic Strip 4
In comic strip 4, the boy puts his father’s hat on a fence and shoots at it with a bow and arrow. A stranger on the other side of the fence finds the hat and puts it on. When the hat is shot off his head, he flees in terror, fearing that he is being attacked by Indians.
Useful words for students writing about this strip are: fence, bow, arrow, shoot, miss, hit, and run away.
Comic Strip 5
In strip 5, the boy is very clumsy. He trips on a rug while carrying a bottle of ink and spills it. In trying to clean up his mess, he only spreads the ink further. Eventually, he takes a basket of washing and puts it on top of the stain to hide it. Finally, he sits outside behind a fence, hiding, presumably from his parents.
Useful words for this comic description are ink, rug, trip, spill, wipe, spread, stain, basket, cover, and hide.
Comic Strip 6
In this one, the boy uses a shovel to dig up a worm. He then uses the worm as bait and goes fishing in a small pond. After catching a goldfish, he throws it back. He then tells his friend he threw it back because goldfish are not made of gold.
Handy words for writing on this worksheet are: shovel, dig, worm, fishing rod, line, bait, pond, catch, and throw back.
Comic Strip 7
In this final strip, the boy is being very naughty. He is vandalizing things by drawing on them. First, he draws an animal and a person on a fence. Then he draws on a sign and an advertisement. A girl then comes along and tricks him into getting paint on his face before running away.
Good words for this one might be: vandal/vandalise, naughty, moustache, paintbrush, trick, fence, stick (verb), and sign.
Comic Strip Writing
3 simple and short comic strips to get your students writing. All they need to do is write a short description of what happened or is happening in the comic underneath the illustrations.
It can be a good idea to arm them with any words you feel are needed, such as crash, lick, howl, fishing rod, log cabin, escape, and so on.
Complete The Comic And Write
This comic writing worksheet is an interesting variation and has 2 parts. Firstly, students must fill in the speech bubbles and write what the characters are saying.
Secondly, they must write the story of what happened. This is perfect for past tense practice!
Words and phrases the students may need beforehand include: scent, smell, beard, log, log cabin, snow, pancake, break-in, and run away.
Get the students to read their stories once they are finished, it is a great exercise for refining pronunciation and intonation.
Make Your Own Comic Worksheets
You can easily make comic description worksheets of your own for certain classes. You may have an age group that is really into a certain comic or cartoon. Just grab a copy of said comic, cut the strips out yourself, and stick them on a sheet of paper.
Another thing you can do is make your comic strips from scratch. Check out these blank comic book pages and templates that set up the framework for you or your students. It can be a great creative writing and artistic project for learners to draw their own characters. Your students will love it!
