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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Using Film to Increase Literacy Skills
- Source: English Journal, Volume 93, Issue 3, Jan 2004, p. 39 - 45
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- 01 Jan 2004
Abstract
Popular culture is about more than just the current time and place, notes high school teacher Michael Vetrie. Connecting classical Greek and Elizabethan theater to contemporary film, he shows how at-risk students can increase their literacy skills through reading film as text.
© 2004 by the National Council of Teachers of English