, written by a committee of the 起点传媒Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues in the effective teaching of writing. Over the next few weeks, we will unpack each one. This week, we will look at:
“Composing occurs in different modalities and technologies.”
Writing instruction must accommodate the explosion in technology from the world around us. These resources from and demonstrate teaching ideas involving multiple media.
聽presents the inquiry and literacy processes of two fifth-grade students as they created a digital video about African American history for a school project. The interaction of the various media in the project (books, writing notebooks, the Web, digital video) created a synergy that fostered and perpetuated the students鈥� literacy and inquiry processes.
In “,”聽students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.
In “聽the authors demonstrate聽how current understandings of literacy learning can be integrated with traditional teaching strategies in the study of literature.
The “聽strategy guide series from ReadWriteThink.org, provides examples of effective literacy teaching and learning strategies and offer a wealth of related resources to help sharpen instruction and integrate technology.
聽identifies and examines a digital arm of creative writing studies and organizes that proposal into four categories through which to theorize the 鈥渃raft鈥� of creative production.
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