Dec 09
If you want to add high-interest activities to your lessons, use animated shorts to teach problems and solutions. Animated shorts provide a captivating way to engage students in understanding and identifying problems and solutions within a narrative. This post focuses on using the animated short “Taking the Plunge” to teach problems and solutions. Handouts for …
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Nov 11
Introducing students to the concept of cause and effect can be both challenging and rewarding. Animated shorts offer a unique and engaging way to explore this literary concept. This lesson plan uses the animated short film “Feast” to teach cause and effect. The post also provides a list of interesting animated shorts for additional practice. …
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Oct 14
Teaching compare and contrast is a fundamental skill in helping students understand both literature and film. Engaging resources, like animated shorts, can make the learning process enjoyable and memorable. This lesson plan focuses on how to teach compare and contrast using the animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Compare and Contrast …
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Jun 29
Looking to jazz up your main idea and supporting details lessons? Consider adding animated shorts and task cards to your teaching toolkit! These dynamic methods grab students’ attention and make abstract concepts more tangible and understandable. Lesson Handout To further support your students, download the free lesson handout, which includes examples, definitions, and printable organizers …
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Apr 03
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference skills. This post features five animated shorts that your students are sure to love. The shorts vary from serious to funny. Select the ones you really like, or show all five videos. In the accompanying handouts, students summarize, infer, and …
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Feb 08
If you are looking to add some high-interest activities for teaching characters and settings, try using the animated shorts Geri’s Game to teach reading skills. This post contains the animated short film Geri’s Game found on Vimeo and inserted in this post. Teaching Character Traits Geri’s Game [4:52] Geri’s Game takes place in a Paris park …
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Jan 11
If you are looking for some high-interest activities to enhance your theme lessons, try using animated shorts to teach the reading skill theme. This post contains the animated short film “Mater and the Ghostlight” found on YouTube and inserted in this post. Teaching Theme with Mater and the Ghostlight [7:10] Mater pulls a number of …
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