Standard 7: Multimodal Literacy

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

WRITING: Students will create multimodal texts to communicate knowledge and develop arguments.

Understanding 

Objectives 

Approaching 

Students will critique the sources of multimodal content correctly.

10.7.W.1

Students will critique the sources of multimodal content.

Developing 

10.7.W.1

Students will begin to critique the sources of multimodal content through teacher-directed activities.

10.7.W.1

Students will critique the sources of multimodal content with guidance and support.

10.7.R.2

Students will create visual and/or multimedia presentations using a variety of media forms to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence for diverse audiences with guidance and support.

10.7.R.2

Students will begin to create visual and/or multimedia presentations, attempting to use a variety of media forms to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence for diverse audiences independently.

10.7.R.2

Students will create visual and/or multimedia presentations using a variety of media forms accurately to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence for diverse audiences.

10.7.W.2

Students will create visual and/or multimedia presentations using a variety of media forms to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence for diverse audiences.

 Instructional Guidance 

• Brainstorm with students different ways to present information.
• Provide multiple examples of how different technology and media are used to create presentations that appeal to diverse audiences.
• Display multiple interpretations (audio, visual, interactive, etc.) of a text or research topic.
• Display examples of multimodal presentations (YouTube videos, TED Talks, etc.) and critique how the different techniques affected them (the audience).
• Guide students in the process of creating a multimodal presentation based on something that they wrote or researched. 

• Brainstorm with students different ways to present information and explain how those choices impact the audience.
• Provide multiple examples of how different technology and media are used to create presentations that appeal to diverse audiences.
• Display multiple interpretations (audio, visual, interactive, etc.) of a text or research topic.
• Display examples of multimodal presentations (YouTube videos, TED Talks, etc.) and critique how the different techniques affected them (the audience).
• Instruct students to practice creating a multimodal presentation based on something that they wrote or researched. 

• Instruct students to identify different ways to present information and explain how those choices impact the audience.
• Instruct students to find examples of how different technology and media are used to create presentations that appeal to diverse audiences.
• Given a mentor text or research topic, Instruct students to find presentations that interpret the source differently.
• Display examples of multimodal presentations and Instruct students to critique the presenter’s techniques and their effectiveness. 
• Instruct students to create a multimodal presentation based on something that they wrote or researched. 

Deeper

Acquisition 

• Instruct students to find, explain, and critique presentations that interpret the same topic but use different techniques and convey different points of view. 
• Instruct students to analyze a multimodal presentation evaluating the argument and how the message could be modified if techniques were altered.
• Instruct students to create a presentation in which they support a text (theirs or given) with multimedia components; the presentations can include original or chosen content of various formats (video, graph, etc.).
• Instruct students to reflect on their creation process that explains their choices.