It was made into a short 15-minute film.
This book and film could be used together in a literature study for middle school students.
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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Saturday, July 25, 2015
The Lost Thing (video)
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan is a picture book for upper primary school students about a teenager who finds something (a cross between a robot, a dog, an octopus, a crab, and something unknown) lost and looks for a place where it could belong. It has quite a lot of social commentary embedded in the pictures and sub-text.
It was made into a short 15-minute film.
This book and film could be used together in a literature study for middle school students.
It was made into a short 15-minute film.
This book and film could be used together in a literature study for middle school students.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Friday, June 12, 2015
The Joy of Books (and Bookstores)
This stop-motion video would have taken forever! It would also have been so much fun (at least, I think so. I wouldn't have liked putting the movie together as much as making it, but we all have our gifts :) ).
I first saw the above video posted on Facebook and it was posted with "related" links. The following little movie would be perfect to show to a class (upper primary/elementary age) as a prompt for creative writing, or even as something to play during some relaxation time. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore was written by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, and was inspired by Joyce's mentor, children's book publisher William Morris. It also draws inspiration from Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. the tornado from The Wizard of Oz and the devastation left by the real-life Hurricane Katrina. This award-winning video is about the curative powers of a story, both in the writing and the reading. [information from Wikipedia]
A quick google search will give you quite a few reviews and analyses, and an article in the New Yorker had a more dire view of what can be read into this story. I'll leave it up to you (and your class - probably middle school if you are going to start analysing it this deeply) to get what you will out of it.
I first saw the above video posted on Facebook and it was posted with "related" links. The following little movie would be perfect to show to a class (upper primary/elementary age) as a prompt for creative writing, or even as something to play during some relaxation time. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore was written by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, and was inspired by Joyce's mentor, children's book publisher William Morris. It also draws inspiration from Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. the tornado from The Wizard of Oz and the devastation left by the real-life Hurricane Katrina. This award-winning video is about the curative powers of a story, both in the writing and the reading. [information from Wikipedia]
A quick google search will give you quite a few reviews and analyses, and an article in the New Yorker had a more dire view of what can be read into this story. I'll leave it up to you (and your class - probably middle school if you are going to start analysing it this deeply) to get what you will out of it.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
The Purpose of Literacy
This one minute sums up one of the most important reasons why our teachers need to have exceptional literacy skills and know how to impart that knowledge.
And here is another one on the same topic by James Patterson (along with an article from The Literacy Site)
And here is another one on the same topic by James Patterson (along with an article from The Literacy Site)
Friday, October 10, 2014
The Book With No Pictures (PB)
Sunday, May 11, 2014
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