Because Sometimes Your Readers Won’t Read—But They Will Watch.
My film-based ELA units help you meet students where they are, especially if you’re working with:
- struggling readers and writers who engage instantly with visual stories
- classes with a wide range of skill levels
- days when your students need a reset but you still need to hit standards
With Coraline, Frankenweenie, and Into the Spider-Verse, you’ll get structured viewing guides, discussion prompts, writing scaffolds, and film-analysis tools that support struggling learners and challenge your high flyers.
Coraline Full Film Analysis Unit
Engage mixed-ability ELA classes with a 3–4 week Coraline film study. Includes pacing, scaffolds, film analysis skills, and assessments for secondary ELA.
Into the Spiderverse Structured & Scaffolded Film Analysis
Trick your students into rigorous analysis with this fully scaffolded film analysis unit designed to get students from frame observations and annotation, to thesis, to formal analysis (presentation + essay options with rubric included!).
Frankenweenie ELA Friendly Film Analysis Unit
This three-week pacing guide and lesson bundle provides everything you need to teach film as literature: essential questions, guided analysis, creative extensions, and culminating writing tasks.