I was inspired by @unoplusunoistu to share one of my favorite short manga with my kids! I love the idea of getting students interested in reading through fun and engaging manga. I might even reuse this for my Halloween English board since the art style leans toward the horror-esque vibe. 🎃👻
🌟 Manga: "The Story of How I Found My Cat"
This Twitter manga series is super fun to read and uses pretty basic English and Japanese in the first chapter (just 3 pages). To make it accessible, I highlighted the key words and taped translations over the original text, so kids can flip between them!
✂️ How To:
- Print all pages on A3 paper.
- Cut out translated text boxes for the first page and tape them to the original manga pages (3 total).
- Display in the classroom or on an English board.
💡 Why It Works:
- The translations make it interactive—students love flipping between the two texts!
- It’s not a super mainstream manga, so none of my kids had seen it before. This made it even more exciting and fresh for them.
- It’s great for elementary students but could also work for high schoolers!
My Japanese isn’t perfect, but my JTE and friends helped with highlighting. If you spot any changes that need to be made, please let me know!
Happy teaching,
— CarpenterBee
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Always look forward to your posts! Thank you for this <3
I think there may be a mistake with one line. "Eye" needs to be plural in the sentence, "Its eye are covered in gunk."
@Vaderade You are right! I tried to fix it but I couldn't figure out what font the scan-lators were using. So it all looks a bit wonk when I try. Maybe they got confused cause the kitten version looks like it has 2 eyes but the adult version only has 1? Thanks for catching it though
This is great. Thanks for sharing it and especially thanks for the idiot proof instructions - I always need them. I hope you will post more of these!
This is awesome! Thanks so much!
Did you ever make a part 2? I currently have this pop-up on our October board and the students love it!
@hall1428 Yes~ I made one recently for the following chapter. It's hyperlinked under the "Inspired:" section above and called "Manga Pop Up - Eng Board"
Wow! How coincidental! Thank you so much!!!!