Cineliteracy: more than making movies provides authentic and challenging literacy strategies that enable teachers and community members to build connections with students’ real world experiences through reading and writing moving images.
Film and television play a central role in students’ lives. Cineliteracy is the critical understanding of the moving image developed through the processes of reading and writing the screen. These processes build on the existing cultural knowledge of students to improve traditional literacy and critical literacy skills.
In 2001, the Priority Schools Funding Program (PSFP) commenced a pilot project to investigate the use of cineliteracy as a strategy to improve literacy levels and student engagement in low socio-economic status school communities in
Western NSW and North Coast regions. As a result of this pilot project, a draft cineliteracy teaching kit was developed and trialled in 2003. By 2005, more than 30 Priority Schools in the North Coast and Sydney regions were implementing cineliteracy in one or more classrooms.
This resource on CD-ROM and DVD has been informed by the ongoing work of the PSP consultancy team, students, teachers, parents and community members in Priority Schools over the past four years. It provides school communities with a range of strategies for teaching critical literacy that can be adapted for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. |
