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Reading strategies movie guides for homeschool
The Hunger Games Movie Unit, Questions/Activities, Lesson Plan
This set of activities for use with The Hunger Games movie is perfect if you are supplementing your novel study with the movie follow-up or if you are doing the movie as a stand-alone unit. These lessons are not book v. movie comparisons. Thus, they are unique in that not only are they designed to make the most out of the viewing experience, but also they could be used during reading for differentiating or as a quick review at the end of the novel study - a very flexible product! Student Exper
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Book Study: Enemy Pie
Looking for the perfect read aloud for anytime of year? You need this unit on the adorable book Enemy Pie by Derek Munson! This unit is a quick, but thorough book study that creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.What’s Included: 1. Book Themed Activities: -Lesson Learned-Next Time-The Enemy List-Enemy Pie-My Best Friend-How to Bake a Pie2. Story Structure Activities: -Story Retell with Problem and Solution-My Solution-Story Sequencing with Beginnin
Grades:
K - 2nd
Book Study: Henry and Mudge
Students love the characters in this Cynthia Rylant classic: Henry and Mudge! This unit is a quick, but thorough book study that creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.What’s Included: 1. Book Themed Activities: -The First Book-The Forever Sea-The Long Weekend-Mrs. Hopper's House-My Pet Dog2. Story Structure Activities: -Story Retell with Problem/Solution-Story Sequencing with Beginning, Middle, End-Story Sequencing with Events-Main Idea and -Book
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Cynthia Rylant "Click-and-Print" Author Study and Book Study Bundle
Book Study: Poppleton
Students love the characters in this Cynthia Rylant classic: Poppleton! This unit is a quick, but thorough book study that creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.What’s Included: 1. Book Themed Activities: -Neighbors-The Library-The Pill-Lesson Learned2. Story Structure Activities: -Story Retell with Problem and Solution-Story Sequencing with Beginning, Middle, End-Main Idea -Book Summary (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)3. Character and Setting An
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Cynthia Rylant "Click-and-Print" Author Study and Book Study Bundle
To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Unit, Questions/Activities
Add rigor and interest to your To Kill a Mockingbird unit or movie study with this To Kill Mockingbird Movie Viewing Guide! The activities included could be used with your study of the novel or movie, but they are not novel-to-film comparisons. This pack works with the 1962 version of the movie to study a film as a text. These no-prep, standards-based activities and assignments are classroom-tested and student-approved, and will have you covered for up to three day!Student Experience: Students
Grades:
9th - 12th
Book Study: Mr. Putter and Tabby
Students love the characters in this Cynthia Rylant classic: Mr. Putter and Tabby! This unit is a quick, but thorough book study that creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.What’s Included: 1. Book Themed Activities: -Pour the Tea-Drop the Ball-See the Stars-Fly the Plane2. Story Structure Activities: -Story Retell with Problem/Solution-Story Sequencing with Beginning, Middle, End-Main Idea -Book Summary (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)3. Characte
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Cynthia Rylant "Click-and-Print" Author Study and Book Study Bundle
HOLES Novel Unit Study | Book Report Project | Activity Worksheets | Movie Guide
This independent novel (or movie) study cuts straight through all the busy work and focuses on the bigger picture of the book - the things you want your students to remember years after they leave your classroom. This packet includes all of the basic activities that you need for your students to demonstrate their comprehension of Holes by Louis Sachar. It's great if you're short on time or need to scaffold for ESL, special education, and absent work. Need to save paper? Print two per page to tur
Grades:
4th - 7th
The Outsiders Character Chart
This is a character log that will help all students better understand and keep track of the characters in The Outsiders. I included still shots from the film next to each character to help students visualize each one. I chose the characters that are most important and come up the most frequently in the story. There are also three charts at the end to help categorize the Greasers, the hoods, and the Socs.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Book Study: The Relatives Came
Students love the characters in this Cynthia Rylant classic: The Relatives Came! This unit is a quick, but thorough book study that creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.What’s Included: 1. Book Themed Activities: -My Visit with Relatives-A Big Sleepover-A Long Car Ride (narrative)-My Car Ride (sensory poem)-Someone I Miss (letter writing)2. Story Structure Activities: -Story Retell -Story Sequencing with Beginning, Middle, End-Main Idea -Book Sum
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Cynthia Rylant "Click-and-Print" Author Study and Book Study Bundle
"Free Solo" Documentary Film Study (2018): Critical Viewing - DISTANCE LEARNING
I love doing a film study with my class as a stand alone exercise. I tend to take a focus or position on a film and have students complete a viewing guide. Free Solo, 2019 Oscar winning documentary film, explores how solo climber Alex Honnold takes on El Capitan, a three-thousand-foot wall in Yosemite National Park. The film chronicles his attempt to climb this granite face without ropes.The film takes the viewer into Alex’s personal life and headspace in order see what it takes to accomplish g
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Performance Psychology Minicourse for Sport & Other Pursuits: 13 Lessons
Christmas Activities, Home Alone 2 Complete Movie Unit, Questions/Activities
Are you looking for a fast and free Christmas lesson for your teenage students that not only engages them during the holidays, but also connects standards and sparks a real-world service project to take their learning from the classroom to the community? Perhaps you need a sub plan during the holidays and a movie would make planning so much easier! This no prep, movie-viewing guide for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has everything you need! Student Experience: While students watch this all-time
Grades:
6th - 11th
Gulliver's Travels Satire and Theme Analysis
This packet may be used with Gulliver's Travels, its excerpts, or the movie with minor modifications. It contains a brief introduction to the work, including the definition of satire, and graphic organizers for analysis of each land/voyage and for five of the themes. It also includes four review questions and an answer key. The assignment was designed to provide a simplistic approach to this challenging literature.
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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Homeschool LEARNING Packet | PRINT and GO BUNDLE
This upper elementary grade HOME LEARNING bundle is perfect for students to continue exercising critical thinking skills during the time that they are at home or on an extended break! By purchasing this BUNDLE, you are saving 30% off of each individual resource!UNPLUG and THINK for at least 1 to 3 hours a day! This HOME LEARNING BUNDLE includes about 3 weeks' worth of engaging activities for you to print and complete with your children at home.Some guides use games or movies. Please check out th
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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LITTLE WOMEN Novel Unit Study | Book Report Project | Activity Worksheets
This independent novel (or movie) study cuts straight through all the busy work and focuses on the bigger picture of the book - the things you want your students to remember years after they leave your classroom. This packet includes all of the basic activities that you need for your students to demonstrate their comprehension of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It's great if you're short on time or need to scaffold for ESL, special education, and absent work. Need to save paper? Print two per
Grades:
5th - 9th
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM Mini Novel Unit Study | Book Report Activity
This independent novel (or movie) study cuts straight through all the busy work and focuses on the bigger picture of the book - the things you want your students to remember years after they leave your classroom. This packet includes all of the basic activities that you need for your students to demonstrate their comprehension of The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis. It's great if you're short on time or need to scaffold for ESL, special education, and absent work. Need to sav
Grades:
4th - 8th
Video Review for Students
Do you want to keep your students focused as they watch videos in class? How many times have you noticed students talking or totally distracted when they watch a video? Do they take the videos, seriously? Without specific tasks to guide them, students may not think the videos are important or may not know what they're supposed to be looking for. For those reasons, I knew I had to create this resource. It's a perfect addition for substitute plans!
There are student sheets for fiction and nonfic
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Quotation Response for "Into the Wild" Film (2007): Double-Entry Journal
"Into the Wild" (2007) is a biographical survival film based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. Christopher McCandless, the film’s star, rejects conformity and materialism in order to discover life without a safety net. As a recent college graduate, he travels across North America into the Alaskan wilderness to live a more “authentic” life. This film is rich in quotations. The Double-Entry Journal strategy enables students to record their responses to text as they read and view. Students
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE Novel Unit Study | Book Report Project Worksheets Activity
This independent novel (or movie) study cuts straight through all the busy work and focuses on the bigger picture of the book - the things you want your students to remember years after they leave your classroom. This packet includes all of the basic activities that you need for your students to demonstrate their comprehension of Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. It's great if you're short on time or need to scaffold for ESL, special education, and absent work. Need to save paper? Print t
Grades:
5th - 9th
The Importance of Being Earnest: Critical Questions & Quotation Discussion
Here is a reading guide that hits all the critical elements of discussing the play, The Importance of Being Earnest. The resource is flexible--you can use it when reading Oscar Wilde's play, or while viewing a film adaptation of the play. Students love the (2002) film version with Reece Witherspoon, Colin Firth and Rupert Everett. It's a delightful adaptation, retaining much of the witty language and gestures of the original play. I tend to use a combination of reading the play, and viewing the
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Witches by Roald Dahl: Text to Movie Comparison CCSS Aligned
Students can use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast 5 important scenes from the book to the movie.
Scenes:
1. How to recognize a witch
2. Meeting the Grand High Witch
3. Bruno comes to collect
4. "Frizzled like a Fritter"
5. Ending
It starts out with:
Have you ever read a book and visualized the characters and events one way, then watched a movie on the same story and the characters and events were NOT what you visualized? Perhaps the events were changed in the movie or the charac
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Grades:
4th - 6th
The Matrix (1999) Viewing Guide
This movie guide will help your students understand the plot, characterizations, allusions, and allegories throughout the film. It is an excellent resource for:The Hero's Journey Plato's Cave AllegoryVisual StorytellingFeatures:Pause breaks for longer questions/discussionsLinks for supportive videos50 Common Core-aligned questions: short answer, longer answer, multiple choice, true/false, and a characterization chartIn PDF, DOCX, Google Doc (recommended); completely editable Answer keyCrossword
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Star Wars, The Matrix, and Live, Die, Repeat BUNDLE (Google, PDF, Word)
MATILDA Novel Unit Study | Book Report Project | Activity Worksheets
This independent novel (or movie) study cuts straight through all the busy work and focuses on the bigger picture of the book - the things you want your students to remember years after they leave your classroom. This packet includes all of the basic activities that you need for your students to demonstrate their comprehension of Matilda by Roald Dahl. It's great if you're short on time or need to scaffold for ESL, special education, and absent work. Need to save paper? Print two per page to tur
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Christmas Grinch Report
After reading the book OR watching the movie, students are able to complete a Grinch Report. Skills addressed are adjectives, verbs, and text-self connections! You may also enlarge this to an 11x17 to make a snazzy poster of our favorite grouchy character!
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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The Witches (1990) Primary School Movie Viewing Guide: Summary/Vocab/Questions
"The Witches" is a 1990 fantasy film directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name. The story follows a young boy named Luke Eveshim, who goes on vacation with his grandmother Helga to a seaside hotel in England. Unbeknownst to Luke, the hotel hosts a gathering of witches led by the Grand High Witch.These witches, unlike the common perception, look like ordinary women but despise children and have a nefarious plan to turn them all into mice using a magical potion. Luk
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Roald Dahl Movies Viewing Guide BUNDLE with KEYS
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