Reading in the dark: Using film as a tool in the English classroom, by John Golden, is a great resource for any English/Language Arts teacher. We've all heard students who've complained about reading being "boring" or "too hard", and my personal favorite, "can I just watch the movie instead?" Students like watching movies because they're easy, and often we choose books as teachers, schools, or school districts because they're challenging to the students. Golden says in his book that we can find a happy medium where the two can work together. This book provides specific examples of how you can play a scene of a movie (he tells you the exact time to start and end the scene) and then use this clip to teach a literary technique or reading strategy. One the students are comfortable with the concepts of these techniques or strategies, then the same concepts can then be transferred over to a piece of literature.
For example, to teach the reading strategy of predicting, Golden recommends playing the opening scene of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane to your students, and then asking questions like, "What is Rosebud? How do you know it's important?"
You can purchase the book or find out more information about it here.
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