Literacies Assessment Technology: Using Flipgrid for Formative Literacy Assessment

Flipgrid is an interactive video discussion platform that has gained popularity as a tool for assessing student literacy, particularly in middle and high school clas...More

Learner Difference: Multilingual Learners (English Language Learners) Appropriate Literacy Strategies to Address This Dimension

One important dimension of learner difference in today’s English classroom is the presence of multilingual learners—stud...More

In a middle-school environmental science unit on climate change, students work with real-world climate data on global temperature anomalies, carbon dioxide levels, and sea-ice extent, provided through an online interactive graphing platform such as...More

A curriculum practice that effectively connects audio and oral meaning to reading and writing is a “Podcast-to-Text Composition” activity used in middle school English language arts. In this practice, students listen to a short youth-produced podcas...More

A pedagogical practice that effectively locates linguistic meanings within spatial, tactile, and gestural contexts is Embodied Story Mapping, in which students retell or compose a narrative by physically moving through a story path created in the cl...More

One effective curriculum resource that engages learners in meaning-making texts moving between images and writing is the "Pictures First" Writing Workshop. In this model, particularly common in early and elementary literacy classrooms, students are...More

An example of a curriculum practice that connects audio and oral meanings to reading and writing is the use of podcast creation in the classroom. In this activity, students record a podcast episode related to a topic they have studied, such as a his...More