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Cool cartoon drawings can build vocabulary One thing that never fails to cheer you up again are cartoons. They are instantaneous, pleasant, enjoyable and always brings out the child in young as well as old alike. Cartoon drawings can do much more than that. They can also be used to teach and educate children. Children understand and mimic the character they most relate to. Wouldn't it be cool if they could be used to teach kids? This is very much possible. Apart from teaching students subjects like history and geography, they can also be used to help children develop their vocabulary. Research and observations have indicated that the brain acts as a single entity, each and every mental skills support and compliment each other. The left part of the brain concentrates on numbers, words, logic, and other details. However, the right part of the brain is comparatively creative as it deals with matters concerning such as pictures, imagination, color, music and rhythm. The left and the right part of the brain works in union. Building vocabulary through animated drawing targets a whole-brain approach in solving of a problem. Wondering how cartoon vocabulary works? It is as simple as watching an animation. It follows the mnemonic principle of association. The word or an idiom is represented in the form of a cartoon drawing. It follows a kind of word association and visual association in the form of drawings. For example, the word 'frenzy' which literally means to be in a state of wild exhilaration sounds a bit similar to 'friends eat'. It can be depicted through a funny drawing of a tiger inside a room gorging on anything edible in view with a caption, 'each time i ask over my friends to eat, they go into a frenzy'. The animated character of the tiger was able to get the message across with a simple illustration and a caption. The cartoon vocabulary books are loaded with many such examples. Vocabulary cartoon books are a cool means for kids to learn new vocabulary words. Moreover, they are simple and easy to use. This is not the only way of teachings kids to build up their vocabulary through comic drawing. To make it more like an activity, kids can be given a word and also its meaning. They can be asked to depict the meaning of the word by means of drawing of cartoon or any other object. This activity will enable them to remember the word or phrase for their whole life long. Did you even consider giving a cartoon character the authority to teach new words to kids. Try it once, it surely works wonders. Animated drawings are entertaining and can help kids learn a lot of things without any hassle. Dido and Yappy are the cutest characters of all, they can teach anyone how to have fun in a jiffy. |