Movies That Teach
unique films can increase the levels of our students reading
Your child to read at a reading level appropriate? National statistics paint a grim picture.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 90 percent of eighth graders in Washington DC, 81 percent New Mexico, 80 percent in Mississippi and Nevada, 78 percent in Louisiana, California and Hawaii, 74 percent in Texas and 73 percent in Florida was reading in a lower level of competition in 2003. At least 63 percent of eighth graders in 32 other states to play a lower level competition.
To help educators and parents to help children become more proficient in reading, SFK Media Corp. specifically for children offers an innovative learning program called ReadEnt. She married movie playback entertainment to teach and improve vocabulary and comprehension. The reading of these films use a technology patented called "Legends of the action," which show all the words on the screen, real time a character speaks.
According to media SFK, the type subtitle is effective in improving the rate of vocabulary development and comprehension. The words are deeply rooted in the minds of children and therefore, both reading skills and language to develop naturally.
"Students [] to see these movie playback even if they think they are watching a movie that is funny … are words to understand. They read, whether they realize it or not, "said Chelsea Atkins, an educator and specialist reading in Florida. "If you sit and watch a couple of these movies a week, spend 10 hours per week of reading."
Movies playing ReadEnt are available on an interactive DVD programs for use on the TV or computer and include classic titles such as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Tales of Gulliver's Travels "and" Troy. " They can be used in a variety of different teaching settings, such as the shared experience on a single screen television as a guided activity where a group of students to interact on your own computer, and as one to one tutorial, in which the teacher or parent assesses the child's comprehension and vocabulary recognition.
"Learning is playing in its best sense, learning and entertainment should be," Joy said Esterberg, a specialist language skills at Baruch College in New York. "This is a wonderful marriage between learning and entertainment."
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