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This handout from Angela Bunyi's Writing Movie Reviews: Lights, Camera, Publish! lesson plan includes three movie reviews (one each for Kit Kittredge, Kung Fu Panda', and WALL-E) from Rotten Tomatoes.
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This film review writing template is great for your class to analyse a movie they have watched. Ideal for English & can help with persuasive writing skills.
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Oct 10, 2024 · Sample Movie Review for School Paper. Part 1. Writing an Intro for a Movie Review. Download Article. 1. Start with a compelling fact, quote, or opinion on the movie. You want to get the reader hooked immediately.
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- Show Students Film Review Examples. To begin, I like to lead a brief whole-class discussion where we chat about the difference between getting a recommendation from a friend and reading a professional movie review.
- Know Your Audience. As we wrap up this lesson, I ask students to consider the audience of each review. For example, is the review aimed at children, adults, or even a teen magazine?
- Teach How to Watch the Film. The next step is to teach students how to watch a film with purpose, rather than simply for pleasure! In an ideal situation, I recommend watching a film twice.
- Provide Common Vocabulary. As part of a film study, it’s important for students to be able to speak the “language” of movie making. After viewing the movie, I like to take some time to outline some key terms to help students write their reviews.
Use our movie review template to provide students with a way to make a meaningful connection to a movie after viewing. Print and distribute this resource for an independent assignment as a follow-up to watching a movie, where students will be asked to review the movie they watched and provide information about the plot and characters.
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This film review template resource is great for teaching your class how to structure and write a film review analyzing a movie they've watched. This template helps students write a film review by encouraging them to answer relevant questions about the movies children are watching in the classroom.
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Teacher and students revise the generic framework, typical content and tone of a film review and useful phrases that typically occur in film reviews based on the analysis of a model film review and possible reconstruction of the model or parts of the model; Click to view sample model: A film review: sample model text [PDF]