'Encanto' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 2 - 9
A full movie-study unit for Encanto (2021) covering reading comprehension, character study, themes, and cross-curricular tie-ins (social studies, maths, science, art, music, writing).
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A full movie-study unit for Encanto (2021) covering reading comprehension, character study, themes, and cross-curricular tie-ins (social studies, maths, science, art, music, writing).
A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
A movie-study lesson plan/worksheet packet for the film Flora & Ulysses (2021), with 30 activities building reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, theme analysis, data/graph interpretation, and creative writing skills.
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
A creative-writing resource that teaches students to plan and write a spooky/suspense story, using fiction-writing technique tips and a model story.
A creative-writing resource teaching narrative structure (introduction, middle, ending) through planning prompts, a fully written model story about meeting a dinosaur at a museum, and space for students to write their own version.
A creative-writing teaching resource that first reviews fiction-writing techniques (audience, genre, structure, dialogue, sentence variety) and then guides students through planning and writing an original story using a given character/setting/plot outline about a boy named Frank at a computer-game sale.
A creative-writing resource in which students read the opening of a story ('A Strange Meeting') about a boy transported into a Monet painting, write their own ending, compare it to a model ending, then use provided biographical facts about Claude Monet to write an information leaflet about the artist.
A movie-study resource built around Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002), teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, character/theme analysis, data reading, and creative writing tied to the film.
One-page creative-writing/imagination worksheet asking students to design a school as it might have existed in ancient Greece.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 8 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Lightyear": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "How to Train Your Dragon 2": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Extend a viewing of Interstellar with activities that connect new vocabulary, personal responses, and narrative writing. Students record film details and word meanings, then reflect on a favorite scene and the movie as a whole. The diary task asks students to retell three scenes from a chosen character’s perspective. Discuss the character’s thoughts and feelings first, then use those ideas to support the written response.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Lady Bird": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Jurassic World": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Jurassic World: Rebirth": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Jurassic Park III": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Record production details and ten new words with their meanings, describe ten characters and add key events to the timeline. The final page asks for a favorite scene, a personal review and three pages of diary writing from a chosen character’s perspective. Use extra paper for that extended assignment.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Howl's Moving Castle - Studio Ghibli": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Life of Pi": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Jurassic World: Dominion": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.
Post-viewing ESL/ELL worksheet pack built around the film "King Richard - Tennis": guides students through a vocabulary log, character review, personal response, and a creative diary-writing task after watching the movie.