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Using animated shorts is highly motivational for students. These high-interest films make learning fun for students. Check out the post below to see if this teaching method works for your students.
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Seasonal
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- December Writing Prompts – Students watch 5 short films that tell the importance of candles for the holidays – Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah. An organizer is provided for students to write paragraphs explaining the importance of the Christmas candle, Kwanzaa kinara, Jewish menorah, and Yule log
- Christmas Shorts – Details from the Story with The Letter and Cause and Effect Chain with Santa’s Intern
- Using Christmas Animated Shorts to Teach Skills
- 5 Halloween Activities
Reading Skills
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- Inference with the Animated Short Lonely Island
- Summarizing with the Animated Short Peck Pocketed
- Main Idea and Details with the Animated Short Lifted
- Perspective with the Animated Short Okapodi
- Theme with the Animated Short Mater and the Ghostlight
- Character Traits with the Animated Short Geri’s Game
- Cause and Effect with the Animated Short Feast
- Compare and Contrast with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore vs. The Wizard of Oz
- Problems and Solutions with the Animated Short Taking the Plunge
Writing Skills Skills
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- Literature Skills with Crow: The Legend
- Comparing Two Shorts with the Animated Short Distracted and Dear Alice
- Problems and Solutions + Inference with the Animated Short On the Same Page
- Setting + Comparing the Short Film to the Novel Refugee with the Animated Short The Box
- Character Change + Mood with the Animated Short One Small Step
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- Details from the Story with the Animated Short Broken: Rock, Scissors, Paper
- Problem and Solution Chain + Theme with the Animated Short The Catch
- Your Actions versus Character’s Actions + Comparing Two Films with the Animated Short Coin Operated
- Summarizing + Comparing Two Films with Miyako and The Monster Under My Bed
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Language Arts Skills
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- Teaching Spelling with Animated Shorts
- Capitalization and Punctuation with Animated Shorts (Coming Soon!)
- 5th Grade Grammar with Animated Shorts (Coming Soon!)
- 6h Grade Grammar with Animated Shorts (Coming Soon!)
