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Film clips

The IESB website has clips from films, for example on this page there are seven clips from Spiderman:
http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2319&Itemid=99
They could be useful for all sorts of literacy activities, for example writing a news report.

Literacy planning – Year 5 Narrative Unit 5 (Film Narrative)

I’m working on planning this unit using the new framework.  So far, I found a few resources that will be helpful. 
First, the Framework site itself.  In the resources, there are various files to download, including the video and several interactive whiteboard files.
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/literacy/planning/Year5/Narrativestories/unit5/
Another similar animated film is The Beauty of Life, which could be used as [...]

Outstanding Interview Lesson!!

Had an inteview yesterday for position as Literacy Leader.  I got the job and the interview panel were really impressed by my lesson.  So I thought I’d share it on here in case anyone else is stuck for ideas.
The task was to teach a 30 minute lesson to a Year 6 class which [...]

Visual literacy

http://whiteboard.bristol-cyps.org.uk/nwn.htm
http://www.pocketmovies.net/
These websites include links to a huge variety of video clips that can be used in literacy as a starter or prompt.

Languages and Espresso video clips

I’m going to try to teach my class a few words in the language of each country we travel to. I’m starting next week with France, then Germany I think. Enchanted Learning has resources for French, Chinese, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. There’s also lots of general geography and map [...]