Readers + Movies

Readers + Movies

An efficient reading strategy is: watch a movie (catch the story), read the book (find more details), watch the movie again (understand more), read the book again (find lots of vocabulary you can now understand). Try it!!

The following readers are only some of the titles you can find that have been made into movies.

Levels 1 and 2

Titanic

Jaws

Persuasion

Jurassic Park

Pirates of the Caribbean

The Death of Karen Silkwood

Romeo and Juliet

Phantom of the Opera

Level 3

My Secret Garden

Billy Elliot

Romeo and Juliet

Forrest Gump

Notting Hill

Love Story

My Fair Lady

Hamlet

Jane Eyre

Level 4

Gone with the Wind

Cinderella Man

Emma

Macbeth

Merchant of Venice

High Frequency Word List

Dear Students,

This is a link to a list of High Frequency Words in English. When you know these words immediately, it will help your reading and writing. Go to this website, print the list, and practice, practice, practice. http://school.elps.k12.mi.us/donley/classrooms/berry/sitton_spelling_activities/4thgrade_spelling/sitton_word_list.htm

Here are more lists.
First 500 most common words.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/first500.html

Second 500 most common words.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/second500.html

Third 500 most common words.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/third500.html

Fourth 500 most common words.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/fourth500.html