Today's Classroom Activities :

Books to Movies

Books to Movies
Art/Reading Discuss older books that have been made into movies recently, such as How to Eat Fried Worms and Bridge to Terabithia. Why are books made into movies? Because they are good books? To make money on the movies? To renew interest in and sell more books? Select a movie to show in class and then read the book. Make comparisons in setting, main idea, characters, etc. throughout the book.

Genres
Reading When introducing genres, start with what students know by asking them for movie suggestions of mysteries, fantasies, etc. Put illustrations of each on the bulletin board, then send the students out to find a book in the same genre as a favorite movie to read and on which to report. (The book should be in the same genre, but not the same story.) Discuss how genre is determined in books vs. in movies. For example, films use music and lighting to foreshadow a scary scene; what does an author use?

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