Language of Film: Curricula
See also Film Language/Literacy
Timely News/Resources:
- Film Literacy Activities (Screen Scotland)
- Teachers Look to Film to Foster Critical Thinking (August 2013)
- Film Ed & The Common Core (March 2013)
- How to incorporate lessons about film into the curriculum (January 2012)
Recommended Resources:
- All About Special Effects (PBS/NOVA)
- AMPAS: Teacher Guide
- Anatomy Of A Scene; worksheet
- Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Moving Image: Grades K-12
- Cinematic Magic: Using Film in Class
- Cinematography 101 (Global Action Project)
- Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
- Curriculum for Digital Media Creation (Apple)
- Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
- Director’s Cut
- Exploring Satire with “Shrek”
- Film As Literature
- Film in the Classroom, Revised (PBS, Masterpiece)
- Film In The Curriculum (UK)
- Filmmaking Across the Curriculum
- Film Project for Primary (Ireland)
- Film Teaching Guides
- Film Teaching Guides (Univ of Florida)
- Genre & Media Literacy (teens and films)
- How to Read Film
- Immigrants In Film (PBS New Americans)
- Introduction to Film Appreciation
- Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films (RWT)
- Lights, Camera, Action…Music:
- Learning Network (lengthy list, NYT)
- Lights, Cameras, Education (AFI)
- Literature To Film
- Look Again (BFI)
- Making Movies Matter
- Media Literacy: Reading Between The Frames (AMPAS)
- Moving Images In The Classroom (BFI)
- Novel as Screenplay
- Reading Films
- Screenwriting 101
- Story of Movies; background
- Teach Animation
- Teaching Film in HS ELA
- Teaching Film Study
- Teaching Film Study and Literature to Film
- Understanding Media: Analyzing Media- Movie Posters
- Using Film In Schools: A Practical Guide
- Using Movies In The Classroom (NCTE, May 2008)
- Using Movies to Improve Visual Literacy
- Visual Grammar of Film
- Writing a Flashback & Flash-Forward (Read, Write Think)
- Recommended texts for K-12 students
- Recommended Texts/DVDs For Classroom Teachers
- DVDs With Extras To Teach The Language of Film
- Recommended Film Studies Books/DVDs
- Using Film in Schools: A Practical Guide (UK)
- Periodicals about Film
- BFI
- Film Education
- ATOM
- American Film Institute
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- National Film Board of Canada
- Media Literacy Clearinghouse film links
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