Pixton ELA: Bring Joy to Reading and Purpose to Writing
Pixton makes evidence-based literacy instruction easy by pairing creative comics with Science of Reading aligned writing activities to help every student build phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
What’s Inside Pixton’s Interactive ELA Activities
Pixton’s Comic Maker has all the tools and resources you need for effective ELA instruction:
ELA Lesson Ideas
Design your lessons with ease using Pixton’s ready-to-go Lesson Ideas. Select your grade and learning objective and explore hundreds of aligned lessons designed to engage and motivate your students to learn.
Featured Content and Story Starters
Pixton’s Featured Content includes backgrounds, characters, facial expressions, and more that your students can use in their comics. Each content pack is aligned to a specific book or topic, making it simple for you to align your assignments with your school’s curriculum.
Not sure where to begin? Use Pixton’s Story Starters and ask your students to retell a narrative, write a story based on a prompt, or analyze characters.
AI-Assisted Activity Maker
With Pixton’s AI-Assisted Activity Maker, you can easily create your own ELA lessons from scratch without spending hours planning the activity. Type in the topic, skill, or idea you want students to learn and the Activity Maker will help you design a lesson that meets your goals.
Interactive Rubric
Pixton’s Comic Maker includes an interactive rubric that allows students to assess themselves before you do, opening the doors to deeper conversation and personalized learning.
Assessments
Diagnostic - See what your students know before you begin.
Use Pixton at the start of a unit to gauge reading comprehension skills, writing readiness, and prior knowledge of key vocabulary or literary concepts. Asking students to build or complete a short comic that illustrates their understanding of a concept or skill will give you a quick picture of where each student is starting, so you can plan instruction with confidence.
Formative - Make checks for understanding more engaging and student-friendly.
Pixton makes it easy to monitor understanding during your ELA lessons. Students can quickly create or revise a comic to retell a scene, clarify a character’s motivation, or show how they would apply a grammar or vocabulary skill. These short, low-stakes creations help you see how students are processing new material in real time, so you can adjust instruction with confidence.
Summative - Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
At the end of a unit, students can use Pixton to produce a complete comic that demonstrates their learning beyond traditional tests. Whether they’re adapting a chapter, explaining a literary theme, or showcasing correct dialogue and narration, their finished comic will give you deep insight into their understanding and ability to apply their learning.
Why you’ll love teaching ELA with Pixton
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Real Engagement, Real Learning
Pixton turns all students, even reluctant readers, into enthusiastic creators. Pixton’s Comic Maker motivates students, increases class participation, and makes ELA assignments exciting instead of intimidating.
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Built to Fit Your ELA Curriculum
Pixton fits seamlessly into your school’s curriculum. Activities align with national and state requirements and popular reading programs, and the AI-assisted Activity Maker helps you generate curriculum-aligned tasks in minutes.
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Designed to Make Your Day Easier
With hundreds of content packs, lesson ideas, story starters, and other resources, you’ll have high-quality materials at your fingertips to start teaching right away. No extra prep time required.
Pixton is easily adaptable to a wide range of interests and abilities, enables every learner to represent themselves, and fosters more personal connections to learning.
Why Pixton works
Pixton’s Comic Maker has been evaluated in several studies and meets ESSA Level 2 evidence standards as an effective instructional resource.
