Movies vs. Text

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Write the words OmissionAnd InclusionOn the board.
• Tell students that sometimes, artists include features from a particular model exactly as they are, and that sometimes, they omit or erase certain features.
• Tell them that authors and writers are no different, as they too can omit or include certain details and characteristics when writing stories or screenplays.
• Inform the students that today their job will be to analyze the inclusions and omissions between text and film.
• Encourage them to be on the lookout for the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) in each story.
• Provide each student with a copy of The Princess and the Pea worksheet and have a volunteer read it to the classroom.
• Once she's finished reading, ask the students to turn to their partners and discuss the 5Ws in the story.

Guided practise

• Inform the students that they will now watch Once Upon a Mattress, which is a movie based on the text they just read.
• Encourage them to take notes of the 5 Ws and to look out for omissions or inclusions.

Independent working time

• Provide each student with a copy of the Text to Film worksheet.
• Have students complete the worksheet independently.