Using Film to Teach Literacy Online and in the Classroom

Offered By: The British Film Institute via FutureLearn

Course Description

Overview

Discover how to improve literacy using film

On this online course, you’ll identify how you can use film as a key tool to deliver literacy lessons, whether online or in the classroom, with your pupils.

Enhance your pupils’ literacy learning with film

Recent research has shown film can be a powerful tool to help improve children’s reading and writing.

It can be used to develop a range of abilities – decoding, inference and analysis – as well as expanding creativity and improving vocabulary.

Explore how film is the perfect resource for blended learning

Teachers and film education experts at film education charity Into Film will help you discover what makes film so useful for learning, wherever it is taking place.

You’ll examine how to use visual storytelling to aid students’ analytical abilities and apply an understanding of sound to help pupils’ visual literacy and interpretation skills.

Create lessons that engage and excite

Discovering an array of inspiring activities and teaching frameworks, you’ll learn how to create lessons from your own homes or the classroom.

Film is a resource that’s easy to use and access, and that can hold students’ attention. You’ll come away able to create literacy lessons that will engage all.

The course is aimed at educators who are teaching their pupils either in the classroom or from home during this difficult period and are looking for engaging, relevant, and easy to use resources.

Syllabus

Introducing the 3Cs & 3Ss

Welcome to the course
Film as a tool for literacy
Reading film - character
Reading film - camera
End of section

Reading Film

Welcome back
Reading film - colour
Reading film - setting
Reading film - sound
Reading film - story
End of course

Taught by

Simon Richards