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Ad lit.org: Pairing Texts With Movies to Promote Comprehension and Discussion

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Thematic pairings of novels/short stories with movies can help students access difficult texts and can lead to deeper comprehension and lively classroom discussion. This article suggests pairings for some commonly assigned middle and high school texts for several important themes.

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themes, adlit, adlit.org: pairing texts with movies to promote comprehension and discussion, adolescent literacy, coming of age theme, racism theme, strong women theme, utopia and dystopia theme, analyzing film, common core language arts, main idea or theme
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)