Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Digital + Printable Bundle

If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach reading and writing skills. This packet contains graphic organizers covering many Common Core skills.

The skills covered in Part 1 include the following.

Inference and Drawing Conclusions

Summarizing

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Perspective and Point of View

Theme

Character and Setting

Cause and Effect

Compare and Contrast

Problems and Solutions

Holiday Films

Story Mapping – Paraphrasing Information (National Lighthouse Day)

Compare and Contrast (Autumn)

Descriptive Writing (Halloween)

Drawing Conclusions (Day of the Dead)

Mood and Tone (Christmas)

Dialogue (Valentine’s Day)

Planning an Opinion or Argumentative Writing (Earth Day)

Comprehension (Father’s Day)

The skills covered in Part 2 include the following.

RL.1 – Inference/Drawing Conclusions/Prediction/Details

RL.2 – Summarizing/Paraphrasing/Main Idea and Supporting Details/Theme

RL.3 – Description of Characters and Setting/Character Change/Types of Conflict

RL.4 – Word Choice/Figurative Language

RL.5 –Structural Elements/Problem and Solution/Cause and Effect/ Chronology/ Comparison

RL.6 – Perspective and Point of View/Irony

RL.7 – Visual and Multimedia Elements/Mood and Tone

RL.9 – Compare and Contrast

Christmas

This new addition covers the same skills as above plus Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. The forty-three films are divided by theme:

• Gift Giving
• The Christmas Truce of 1914 / World War I
• Stars
• Animals
• Santa
• Classics
• Gingerbread
• Mixed Topics

Check other products in this series 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]
Animated Shorts Christmas
Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts [Digital + Printable]
Teaching Reading and Writing Skills with Animated Shorts [Printable]

Writing Series
Three Unit Bundle for Narrative, Informative, and Opinion Writing

Narrative Writing

Teaching Narrative Writing Skills with Animated Short Films [Digital + Printable]

Teaching Narrative Writing Skills with Animated Short Films [Printable]

Informative Writing

Teaching Informative Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Digital + Printable

Teaching Informative Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Printable

Opinion Writing

Teaching Opinion Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Digital + Printable

Teaching Opinion Writing Skills with Animated Shorts Printable