Erica has a good MT selection and be sure to look at the selections in the comment field below it from chill and thank you both:
A great idea are these new Mickey Toons they are showing on Disney. They really aren’t appropriate in my opinion for my daughter who is 3 but they are hilarious and I think our students would LOVE them. The last one I saw had Mickey and Donald. They wanted to go buy food for their ladies but the sign read “No shirt, no shoes, no service.” Well, Mickey had the pants and shoes, and Donald had the shirt so they battled to see who got to switch. Here is the video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNdhDq-DF8k
I replied:
Most excellent.
About a year ago we started a thread here – skip started it I think – on how to best use CI to teach upper levels. I know that this MT clip can be used at any level (anything can be used at any level) but I see this as most useful for upper levels. This one clip could be used over a two week period or even three week period as a curricular “unit”.
Here is the link to the teacher prep guidelines provided for us by Jody:
Here is the link to the category selections on Movie Talk:
https://benslavic.com/blog/category/movie-talk/
I would suggest that the order we would use this in would be to just follow the natural order of acquisition as James’ video did. First the kids would watch the clip. Then we would discuss it for as long as we could, milking the CI, as slowly as possible of course. Then we would create a reading. Then we could send it through Textivate for some more reading practice which would then lead to writing. James’ video shows an example of that process. Then we could try for some speaking output if the kids wanted to. They probably would speak some after hearing it discussed, having read it, and having done some limited writing about it over a period of days or weeks.
Thank you Erica I will place this in the Movies – Best Clips category. I was going to read a novel with my upper level kids today. I think I’ll use this instead. It’s fresh. Donald Duck is always fresh.