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25 Movies You Can Pair With Books

February 4, 2018 by Erin Vincent 14 Comments

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Books made into movies can be a wonderful addition to your homeschool! But it wasn’t until I discovered the Brave Writer lifestyle that I realized what a perfect pairing movies and books could be. Here are 25 movies you can pair with books to enhance your family’s movie night!

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

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Incorporating the Brave Writer Lifestyle

You mean I can watch movies with my kids and it counts towards language arts?

YES!

The Brave Writer program is more of a lifestyle. It’s all about building relationships with your family while incorporating a rich environment of language arts. This rich environment includes…

  • Poetry Teatime
  • Reading Aloud
  • Big Juicy Conversations – Reading books and watching movies are amazing ways to effortlessly incorporate conversations into your family.
  • Freewriting
  • Nature Journaling
  • Writing Projects
  • Art Appreciation
  • Copywork
  • Dictation
  • Language Games

Did you know that movies fall into the category of language arts? Movies, television, and theater performances are fantastic ways to keep your kids involved in story, characterization, and script writing.

Why?

Because your kiddos are listening to vocabulary, and language in correct context by different people. Also, the plot can be more easily understood in movies as well as climax, archetypes, characters, setting, irony, cultural assumptions, and comic timing.

Movie night becomes a big conversation in our family!

Comparing Books and Their Movies

Here’s the key to using books and movies together.

  • Ask loads of questions
  • Stop the film at crucial points and see if your children can predict what will happen next.
  • Watch the same movie multiple times. Each time your children watch it, they will be able to point out more differences between the book and the movie.

As a family, we LOVE to read a book and then watch its corresponding movie or multiple versions of the same movie. My son is notorious for being the best or worst movie critique. He points out Every. Single. deviation from the original book… Out. Loud…DURING the MOVIE!

I find my son’s comparisons to be an excellent way to tell his knowledge of the book.

It’s like an oral book report!

But with movie snacks and cozy blankets!

Brave Writer Arrow and Boomerang Guides

Each Brave Writer Arrow and Boomerang guide contains everything you need for a tailor-made literature and writing program…

  • copywork/dictation passages
  • notes to enhance the study of the passages from each book
  • grammar
  • spelling
  • punctuation
  • literary style
  • and a featured literary element!

All you must do is choose which book or books your child would enjoy this year!

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

The Brave Writer guides are linked above each book and movie combo. If you’re interested in the full Brave Writer Arrow and Boomerang Guides list then you can check out all of their single issues. But, for the sake of this post, I’m going to share our favorite mash-ups of books paired with movies and Brave Writer guides.

Because of Winn Dixie Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Ben and Me Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

James and the Giant Peach Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

How to Train Your Dragon

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Mary Poppins Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Mr. Poppins Penguins Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Nim’s Island Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Pippy Longstocking Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Sarah Plain and Tall Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Stuart Little Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Begining Arrow Guide

*Also, be sure to check out the Netflix original series of A Series of Unfortunate Events starring Neil Patrick Harris! It’s fantastic and season 2 begins in March!

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Secret Garden Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Tale of Despereaux Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Wind in the Willows Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Where the Red Fern Grows Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Wonder Arrow Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

I’ve also included some of our favorite Boomerang titles, while technically for high school students, my 10-year-old has adored them also.

 

Anne of Green Gables Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Eragon Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

Holes Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Call of the Wild and White Fang Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Hobbit Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

The Hound of Baskervilles Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

 

 

A Wrinkle in Time Boomerang Guide

25 Movies You Can Pair With Books & Brave Writer Guides

Movie coming to theaters in March 2018!

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About Erin Vincent

Erin is a writer, blogger, and homeschooler to two intense kids. She loves nature, farm life, good books, knitting, new pens, and hot coffee. Erin is a contributing writer for Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Her work has also been featured on Simple Homeschool and Book Shark.

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  1. Kristen says

    February 5, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    The Jeremy Brett Hound of the Baskervilles is also a great movie version of the Sherlock Holmes tale. (In fact, I love all the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes productions.)
    Do you guys read and watch Shakespeare? That has always been a favorite of mine – reading the play and watching the different movie productions.

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  2. Mother of 3 says

    February 5, 2018 at 6:08 am

    We also like The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the movie Hugo, Jumanji (name of book & movie), Percy Jackson (the first two books are movies). We watch a lot of movies to compare to books and my boys are so much like me in that they complain “that’s not how it happened in the book!” Pinned.

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    • Erin Vincent says

      February 5, 2018 at 7:24 am

      Yes! Those were all Fantastic movie/book combos! We always try to find a corresponding movie to each book we read. It definitely adds an element of fun.

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