Lesson and differentiated resources for teaching students how to write a review of the award winning short film ‘Father and Daughter’ 2008 by Michael Dudok de Vit. Link to film included.
A simple but effective and engaging scenario for a speaking and listening group discussion.
Students must take into account the biographies of all the guests before deciding on the best possible seating plan for the bus trip.
There is also a sheet with useful discussion prompts to help promote effective discussions.
I have divided the play into smaller chunks. Students must find key quotations from each scene from the play and make links to one of the 6 themes.
The page numbers are for the Methuen edition with the red cover.
A task involving transforming a simple 3 paragraph grade 3 piece of narrative writing into a grade 4/5 response.
Students rewrite the grade 3 description with improvements in the following areas:
varied sentence types
varied openers
varied punctuation
ambitious vocabulary
similes and metaphors