The teacher may need to provide appropriate visual and contextual support to help them comprehend and respond to these works in personally meaningful ways. Invite students to take a Gallery Walk to view the illustrations. Ask them to create artwork such as mobiles, collages, or dioramas representing the ideas or images in the gallery that they find most interesting. Have students view examples of manga. As a class, discuss elements of manga , including styles of visual representation, storylines, stereotypes, and gender roles.
Students then create their own manga using learned vocabulary.
Point out key words to assist understanding. Teach the songs, then provide opportunities for students to learn and sing them at appropriate times of the year. Read a Japanese story to the class. Then form small groups and ask them to arrange pictures from the story in the correct sequence. Students could also develop a mural to illustrate the storyline.