Multimodal composition is a meaningful and critical way for students to tell their stories, make good arguments, and share their expertise in today’s world. In this helpful resource, writer, teacher, and best-selling author Angela Stockman illustrates the importance of making writing a multimodal endeavor in K-5 workshops by providing peeks into the classrooms she teaches within. Chapters address what multimodal composition is, how to situate it in a writing workshop that is responsive to the unique needs of writers, how to handle curriculum design and assessment, and how to plan instruction. The appendices offer tangible tools and resources that will help you implement and sustain this work in your own classroom. Ideal for teachers of grades K-5, literacy coaches, and curriculum leaders, this book will help you and your students reimagine what a workshop can be when the writers within it produce far more than written words.
Author(s): Angela Stockman
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 176
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Why It's Time for Workshop to Go Multimodal
What's Print Privilege?
Why Do We Do This?
It Begins With You
Who I Learn From
How This Book Is Organized
My Intended Audience
Who Am I?
Part 1: What Is Multimodal Composition?
1 What's Multimodal Composition?
Defining Multimodal Composition
Compositions—and Humans—Made Whole
Workshop Is Everlasting
Sixty Second Reflection
2 The Multimodal Writing Workshop
A Peek into a Make Writing Studio
Familiar Territory
Essential Workshop Elements that Stand the Test of Time
So, What Makes a Multimodal Writing Workshop Different?
Four Ways to Situate Multimodal Composition Inside of Your Current Writing Workshop
Begin with Identity Work
A Peek Inside a Make Writing Studio Session
Grow Your Curricular Toolkit
Prepare to Document Your Learning, and Invite Writers to Do the Same
Confer with Careful Intention
Sixty Second Reflection
Part 2: How Do We Create Multimodal Writing Workshops?
3 A Blueprint for the Multimodal Writing Workshop
Learning the Language of Leaves
Defining Your Workshop's Load-bearing Walls
Creating Learning Experiences that Deepen Self-Awareness
Building Trusting Relationships
A Peek Inside My Practice
Creating an Environment that Sustains Diverse Writers Through Diverse Processes
Instructional Support that Prepares Writers to Produce Real Things for Real Audiences that Appreciate Them
Sixty Second Reflection
4 Curriculum Design
Defining the Ways We Create Curriculum
The Essential Elements of a High Quality Curriculum Design Experience
ACT: The Learning for Transfer Mental Model
Situating Standards Within the Frame
Hanging It All Together
Sixty Second Reflection
5 Assessing Multimodal Processes and Products
Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction Work Hand-in-Hand
A Peek into My Documentation Process
Documenting to Do Less Harm
Grading and Reporting
And What About Report Cards?
Framing Better Feedback
Sixty Second Reflection
Part 3: How Do We Teach Multimodal Composition?
6 Mentor Texts, Planning, and the Essential Elements of a Multimodal Composition
The Essential Elements of a Multimodal Composition
Analyzing Multimodal Mentor Texts
Differentiated Investigations of a Form
The Designer's Notebook
How Experienced Writers and Designers Build Prototypes
Making the Writing Process Multimodal for Inexperienced Writers
Sixty Second Reflection
7 Pitches, Prototypes, and Feedback
Emphasis
Contrast
Color
Organization
Alignment
Proximity
Considering Design Choices in Mentor Texts
Pitching to Peer Review
Sixty Second Reflection
8 Launching a Multimodal Composition into the World
Helping Our Youngest Writers Create Things for Authentic Purposes
Helping More Experienced Writers and Designers Launch Their Work
Timing the Launch
Reflecting to Learn
Publication Outlets for Writers of All Ages
Sixty Second Reflection
Appendix A: Planning Tools
Andrea Schaber's Story
Feedback Structures, Protocols, and Frames for Writers and Designers
Five Ways to Explore Identity with Young Writers and Designers
Appendix B: Tools for Writers
Mentor Text Sources and Tools for Young Writers and Designers
Multimodal Mentor Texts
Publishing Opportunities for Young Writers and Designers
Starter Sets
