French Roast - Literacy Shed
Literacy Shed provides some extremely useful resources to stimulate young writers. I have been using these clips for several years now and they offer a wealth of interesting ways of creating a text.
One resource is ‘French Roast’ https://www.literacyshed.com/french-roast.html#
I would suggest using the resource in a number of ways:
• Watch the clip with your child twice through. On the second play, pause the film to ask questions.
• Explore characters by showing the child part of story then pause to ask them to describe the character or predict what might happen next. Consider the moral dilemmas that ensue.
• When a new character is introduced ask; ‘Who is the better person?’
– ‘Why?’ As each new character is introduced, pause and invite the child to 'pass judgement'. In the end who was the 'better' person?
• Can you predict the ending? Write your OWN ending or add another scene… ‘Several months later in the café…’
• Use a still from the film and ask your child to write the internal dialogue of one of the characters. Why do you think that is what the character is feeling/thinking? How does the tone change throughout?
French Roast is simply brilliant with a fabulous twist at the end.
You can find this clip and MANY MORE on Literacy Shed.
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