When the Protagonist Speaks the Language

When the Hero Speaks the Language (Literacy Today, July/August/September 2026: pages 44-45)

What if the fastest way to a child's second language was not a worksheet, but a comic book starring the child themselves? In this new piece for Literacy Today, the flagship magazine of the International Literacy Association, I break down a free, fifteen-minute AI workflow that turns a child's own spoken story into a personalized comic; first in their native language, then in the one they are learning. Along the way, it teaches something bigger than vocabulary: how to prompt, evaluate and refine AI output with real judgment. Read the full article at literacyworldwide.org to see the complete seven-step workflow.

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