The story jumps here: helping a reader find the gap

A character is indoors in one sentence and suddenly boarding a boat in the next. Instead of adding description everywhere, locate the point where the reader needs a connection and decide what information would bridge it.

Describe the order shown. Locate the unexplained jump. Add a bridging picture or sentence.

Repair the transition, not the whole page

A character suddenly appears inside a locked room; the revision shows how they obtained the key.

Ask what the reader needs to understand between the two events. Add information that explains the transition rather than unrelated description.

Does the new connection answer the listener's question? Invite pointing to the confusing panel.

A longer story is not necessarily a clearer one.

Resources

• Six-Panel Comic Challenge — Use the panels when a visual story sequence supports the task.

Further reading

• Literacy Hub — Teaching reading professional learning

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