Standard 7: Multimodal Literacy

Students will acquire, refine, and share knowledge through a variety of written, oral, visual, digital, non-verbal, and interactive texts. 

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

• Students will choose, organize or create a multimodal example to increase the meaning of a selected topic.
• Students should be able to find and use or create multimedia content to support an existing text, either of their own or a selected text or presentation. 

• Teachers model selection, organization, and creation of a multimodal example to explain and enhance the meaning of a select topic.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice organizing and creating an enhanced multimodal meaning of a selected topic.

Supporting Resources 

Teacher Insights 

Powtoon | Create Awesome Videos Yourself (website)

Google Slides - create and edit presentations online, for free. (website)

create presentation rubric with quickrubric.com (website)

• A multimodal text combines two or more variations of communication through either linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, or spatial means.

• Examples of multimodal texts include picture books, web pages with audio or video, or live performances.

• When helping students decide on what media to use, students should consider how the purpose and audience contribute to the meaning.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.