Media Literacy Ideas and Pages

Taken directly from their site: TeachWithMovies.com offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides to 270 movies. "Learning Guides" are flexible tools for teachers providing background, discussion questions, links to the Internet, projects, and vocabulary lists. They allow teachers to quickly and easily create lesson plans suitable for their particular classes.

* So far this year we have watched and read: Matilda by: Roald Dahl and Charlotte's Web by: E.B. White.  With Matilda we used a Venn Diagram to show the similarities and differences between  he book and the movie.  I have started collecting movies and books that go together, there are many out there.

Lessons and resources for media education. 30 lesson plans geared to the primary level. There are also five media based games, including: Privacy Playground, which is geared to students 8 -10 years old. The game includes a teachers guide. 

Television Commercial Links


Dove Evolution commercial. I use this to show my students who advertisements are touched-up and most people in real life do not look the way their pictures do.  This is a great conversation starter.  To Save to your computer: Click to watch, once Media Player starts playing, click File, Save As and you can save the commercial to the computer. Can only be played on the computer (not a DVD format).


Commercials from the 1970s - 1990s.  These are great for nostalgia purposes!  This site saves you the record and save from the television. Save and playback is the same as the Dove commercial. (Thanks to Lindsey for telling me about this one)

Media Literacy - Ideas and Resources

Click here for a list of pictures books that can be used to teach media literacy ideas.

Click here for a hand-out of containing most of this information and more.