Pixton ELL: Visual Stories That Build Fluency
Pixton supports multilingual learners by making language visible. Comics help students see vocabulary, grammar structures, and text meaning through images, gestures and expressions, making English more accessible and easier to understand.
What’s Inside Pixton’s Interactive ELL Activities
Pixton’s Comic Maker gives you all the tools and resources you need to support multilingual learners at all levels:
ELL Lesson Ideas
Featured Content and Story Starters
Pixton’s Featured Content includes backgrounds, characters, facial expressions, and props that give ELL students the visual support they need to learn and apply new vocabulary and grammar patterns across subject areas.
Not sure where to begin? Use Pixton’s Story Starters and ask your students to introduce themselves, describe their favorite tradition, retell a story, or respond to a guided prompt.
AI-Assisted Activity Maker
Interactive Rubric
Assessments
Use Pixton at the start of a unit to gauge reading comprehension, writing readiness, and prior knowledge of key vocabulary or grammar structures. Ask students to build or complete a short comic to quickly see 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 ELL lessons. Students can quickly create or revise a comic to retell a scene, practice vocabulary, or show how they would apply a grammar concept. These short, low-stakes creations reveal how students are processing new material in real time, so you can adjust instruction with ease.
Summative - Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
At the end of a unit, students can produce a complete comic that demonstrates their learning beyond traditional tests. Whether they’re writing a short story, applying new vocabulary, or showcasing correct dialogue and narration, their finished comic gives you deep insight into language growth and comprehension.
Why You’ll Love Teaching ELL with Pixton
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Real Engagement, Real Learning
Pixton turns all students, even reluctant learners, into enthusiastic creators. Pixton’s Comic Maker motivates students, increases class participation, and makes ELL assignments exciting instead of intimidating. -
Built to Fit Your ELL Curriculum
Pixton fits seamlessly into your school’s ELL curriculum. Activities align with national and state ELL requirements and the AI-assisted Activity Maker helps you generate curriculum-aligned tasks in minutes. -
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 – no extra prep time required.
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.
