Think Before You Start - Discuss

Have you ever been on an adventure?

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Quick-Fire Questions

  1. Can you describe Beth French’s adventures in a few sentences?
  2. How does the author mix speech and narrative?
  3. Which writing techniques are used to describe action?
  4. Which words show how Beth was feeling?
  5. What was Beth told to do if she ever met a shark?

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“The beauty of the project is that the children believed that they were having a great time making their videos. They did not realise or question the high quality English input they were receiving over a number of genres.”

Tim Head,
Coddington Primary

The research behind LitFilmFest

In a four month research study supported by the UCL Institute of Education, we worked with 200 KS2 students across three schools to measure the efficacy of our approach.

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