Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script
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- Aug 14 2010 11:45 AM
Mary Kay Monson
This resource was matched by a member of the Brokers of Expertise Standards Matching Team.
This resource also lends itself to teaching dialogue with appropriate use of punctuation around the speakers exact words.
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In this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students view a videotape or DVD of a film segment that has a great deal of action and little or no dialogue. After viewing the segment, students write a descriptive summary of the scene. They then have an opportunity to improve their reading fluency as they reread their script expressively. As a final project, students give a performance in which they read their written summary while showing the film in the background. This lesson incorporates an assessment rubric and links to a variety of Web resources. Less
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Grade: 3 to 5
Topics: Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies