multimodality Archives - Inclusive Classrooms Project

The Multimodal Independent Reading Toolkit

Teacher Inquiries
Tags: multimodality

I have always loved experimenting with new forms of technology. I am not a "first adopter" of brand new technology, but I have definitely considered myself a "fairly early adopter." When my principal asked if I wanted to attend the Inquiry to Action professional development at Teachers College, I jumped at the chance to participate...
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Multimodality

Practices
Tags: multimodality

Envision a typical classroom. There are a number of students sitting in rows of desks, or maybe groups. They are given a text to read and asked to write in response to the text. Maybe they are answering specific questions. Maybe they are critiquing, but the basic mode of learning is reading for information and...
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A Multimodal Approach to Push-in and Pull-out ESL Instruction

Teacher Inquiries
Tags: multimodality, teacher inquiries

My name is Mary Tomac and I have been an ESL teacher at a public elementary Brooklyn for the last 7 years. Each year, I strive to help my students grow as English language learners and do their very best work. Unfortunately, in this climate of high stakes testing, teacher and principal accountability, and the...
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Artifactual Literacies by Kate Pahl & Jennifer Roswell

Learning Library
Tags: book, literacy, multimodality

To re-engage students with literacy, teachers need an entry point that recognizes and honors students' out-of-school identities. This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to...
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Multimodality Literacy by Carey Jewitt & Gunther Kress

Learning Library
Tags: book, literacy, multimodality

Multimodal Literacy challenges dominant ideas around language, learning, and representation. Using a rich variety of examples, it shows the range of representational and communicational modes involved in learning through image, animated movement, writing, speech, gesture, or gaze. The effect of these modes on learning is explored in different sites including formal learning across the curriculum...
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