Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Why It’s Time for Workshop to Go Multimodal Part One: What is Multimodal Composition? 1. What's Multimodal Composition 2. The Multimodal Writing Workshop Part Two: How Do We Create Multimodal Writing Workshops? 3. A Blueprint for the Multimodal Writing Workshop 4. Curriculum Design 5. Assessing Multimodal Processes and Products Part Three: How Do We Teach Multimodal Composition? 6. Mentor Texts, Planning, and the Essential Elements of a Multimodal Composition 7. Pitches, Prototypes, and Feedback 8. Launching a Multimodal Composition into the World Appendix A: Planning Tools Appendix B: Tools for Writers
