Today's multimedia, multimodal world necessitates literacy instruction that includes a variety of text forms (such as film, print, music, Internet, photographs). Strop and Carlson provide all types of learners with the lifelong tools they need to explore and interpret texts. This book will help teachers and students reach beyond printed texts to expand perspectives, understand different text forms and genres, make intertextual connections, and transcend strategy-based instruction. Multimedia Text Sets includes: -ideas for explicit teaching of how to read different forms and genres of texts. -real stories, which demonstrate the power of multiple literacies, from three teachers who incorporate multimedia text sets in their classrooms. -engaging ideas for instruction you can use to help develop your own students' reading/writing practices with a variety of text forms. -practical suggestions on how to create your own multimedia text sets. Contributors to this book are Holly Dionne, Richard Kuhnen, and Stephanie Reid.
Written by educators from diverse experiences, Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students provides ready-to-use multicultural text sets complete with annotations, instructional activities, and multimedia tools, as well as a ...
"We believe new technologies can advance both the teaching and learning of writing." -The National Commission on Writing in American Schools and Colleges, The Neglected 'R': The Need for a...
Content Statement 4 The practice of race based slavery led to the forced migration of Africans to the American colonies. ... Informational Titles Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Socio-political Legitimation of ...
In The HyperDoc Handbook, Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis show you how to use some of today's best tools to spark students' curiosity and get them involved as creators--of content and learning--rather than simply consumers.
For example, take a look at the following School Library Journal review for The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families (Roth and Trumbore 2011), from May 1, 2011: Grades 3–6: This is a true story set in a small village in ...
This book bridges critical literacy theory and teacher education by offering a theoretical framework and detailed examples and pedagogical resources teacher educators can use to build critical literacies with teachers in and out of school.
... text sets would rank as follows: Twitter microblogging social media set, mainstream journalistic articles, Wikipedia articles, academic articles, and leaked government data, in descending order. The actual data ranked the five text sets ...
Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.
(Prentice Hall,Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2013) J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 6th edn. (Pearson, New York, 2012) H. Zimmermann, OSI reference model-the ISO model of architecture for open systems ...
In this second edition, Mayer includes double the number of experimental comparisons, 6 new principles - signalling, segmenting, pertaining, personalization, voice and image principles.