Stories & Comics
Follow the clue.
Change the point of view.
Put inference, sequence and perspective inside a story learners can examine. Choices open consequences to discuss, while the text and images remain evidence for every interpretation.
Let the story carry a question.
A character, conflict or missing detail gives learners a reason to infer, order events or examine a perspective.
Keep choices open to inspection.
A branch changes what happens next, but the learner still points to words, images or context that support the decision.
Return to the text.
A new scene or changed narrator asks learners to apply the same reading idea without repeating the first route.
FROM OBJECTIVE TO EXPERIENCE
Different subjects.
Purposeful possibilities.
Start with what learners should understand. Shape the experience around the thinking you want to see.
The Lantern Path
Choose a forest route from what the narrator notices, then return to the panels and identify which clue made the choice reasonable.
Make an inference from textual and visual clues, then test it in a new scene.
Two Voices at the Harbour
Read two comic accounts of the same arrival, compare what each speaker could know and mark where evidence ends and interpretation begins.
Compare perspectives and explain how position shapes a historical account.
The Seed's Long Journey
Arrange illustrated episodes of seed dispersal, explain the cause of each move and predict a route for a differently shaped seed.
Connect seed features to dispersal mechanisms and transfer the explanation.
INSIDE A LEARNING MOMENT
Find the route through Lantern Wood.
A branching forest tale asks learners to distinguish a tempting guess from an inference grounded in the page.
Which path did the missing cart take, and what in the story supports it?
Notice before choosing
Read the opening panels and mark details about the ground, weather and narrator. State an initial route without revealing the next page.
Follow one consequence
Choose the river or ridge path and see the result. Name the clue that supported the choice and one detail that counted against it.
Revisit another voice
Read the same moment from a second character's view. Revise the inference only if the new account changes the evidence.
Read a fresh trail
Apply the method to a new set of panels with different tracks, weather and narrator knowledge, then justify the route independently.
The chosen ending matters less than the trail of evidence, revision and fresh interpretation the teacher can review.
MAKE THINKING VISIBLE
Notice the reasoning.
Choose what comes next.
Use the response, the process, and the help involved to decide what a learner needs next. Educator judgment stays central.
Clues selected
Highlighted words and image details show what the learner treated as evidence rather than leaving the interpretation unexplained.
Choice and revision
The route, its consequence and any change after another viewpoint reveal how the learner weighs information.
Independent interpretation
A new scene checks whether the learner can support an inference without relying on the familiar characters or ending.
EDUCATOR CONTROL
Your objective.
Your teaching decisions.
Create, adapt, review, and assign with the learning conditions in view.
Set the reading purpose
Choose the inference, sequence, language or perspective objective before selecting characters and branches.
Review representation and rights
Inspect cultural context, claims, images and source permissions. Keep learner-created responses private unless a reviewed sharing choice says otherwise.
Offer equivalent ways through
Provide readable text, image descriptions, narration with transcripts, keyboard navigation and a linear route through every essential scene.
Shape prompts without writing the answer
Choose vocabulary support, clue highlighting and sentence frames; record assistance so a polished response is not mistaken for independent reading.
Stories & Comics
Open a path into the story.
Bring every claim back to the page.