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

A good example of how literacies represent academic knowledge outside the language subject can be found in Science education, particularly in teaching environmental awareness and climate change. In this area, literacies are not limited to reading an...More

An important site of multimodal communication in my life is Facebook. I use it every day to connect with my classmates, teachers, friends, and even family members. Facebook is not just for chatting or sharing updates—it’s also a powerful platform wh...More

An important site of multimodal communication in my life is YouTube. I often use it to learn new things, watch educational videos, and listen to music. YouTube is a good example of multimodal communication because it combines sound, visuals, text, a...More