Using Animated Christmas Shorts to Teach Mood and Tone

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If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your mood and tone lessons, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills. 

This post contains the animated short “The Girl and the Cloud” found on Youtube and inserted in this post. In this exercise, students will compare and contrast the film version of the story to the online storybook. “The Girl and the Cloud” interactive storybook may be found here. The handout may be found here.

Animated Shorts

The Girl and the Cloud [2:53]

A narrated story about Anna and her best friend, a snow cloud. 

 Additional Christmas Animated Shorts

LEGO Holiday Story [1:06]

A LEGO family decorates for the holiday.

Gordon Goose: Christmas Tree! [1:28]

Gordon uses technology to light up the city.

Santa’s Cookies [2:23]

Turtle tries to keep Hippo from eating Santa’s cookies.

Magic Star [5:33]

Santa brings Little Bear a special Christmas gift.

Handout

This post is a sample of my new product “Using Animated Short Films to Teach Reading Skills.” Each month one additional post from this series will go live. You can find the links and post dates listed below.

Each post will contain one animated short with a printable handout. You can collect all ten by coming back each month. The full products, divided into two parts, contain over 50 student printables each for a total of 100+. 

The printables contain organizers with guiding questions to help students evaluate the short film and learn valuable reading skills. All short films will be added to a webpage on Book Units Teacher for easy access. The link to this webpage will be included in the purchased product.

Check out the products on Teachers Pay Teachers:

Part 1 – 52 Organizers

Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Pt 1 [Digital + Printable]

Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Pt 1 [Printable]

Part 2 – An Additional 52 Organizers

Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Pt 2 [Digital + Printable]

Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Pt 1 [Printable]

Blog Post Links and Publication Dates

• Inference ~ Post Date August 24, 2017

• Summarizing ~ Post Date September 14, 2017

• Main Idea and Details ~ Post Date October 12, 2017

• Mood and Tone with Christmas Shorts ~ Post Date November 9, 2017

• Point of View and Perspective ~ Post Date December 14, 2017

• Theme ~ Post Date January 12, 2018

• Characters and Setting ~ Post Date February 9, 2018

• Cause and Effect ~ Post Date March 9, 2018

• Compare and Contrast ~ Post Date April 14, 2018

• Problems and Solution ~ Post Date March 12, 2018