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 

1.7.W.1

Students can select and use appropriate technology or media to communicate with others with guidance and support.

1.7.W.1

Students will select and use appropriate technology or media to communicate with others with guidance and support.

Developing 

1.7.W.1

Students will attempt to select and use appropriate technology or media to communicate with others with guidance and support.

1.7.W.1

Students are learning to select and use appropriate technology or media to communicate with others with guidance and support.

1.7.W.2

Students need guidance to use visual displays to support verbal communication and clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

1.7.W.2

Students will attempt to use visual displays to support verbal communication and clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

1.7.W.2

Students can use visual displays to support verbal communication and clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

1.7.W.2

Students will use visual displays to support verbal communication and clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

 Instructional Guidance 

• Working in groups, students will use props or illustrations to share information.
• Provide support to students in using apps such as Seesaw, students record as well as take pictures and videos of their learning. It is added to a digital portfolio that their parents can access.

• Provide students with opportunities to use a variety of apps such as Seesaw, Chatterpix, and/or Puppet pals to support communication.
• Students should have a opportunities to use provided resources such as flannel boards, props, puppets, and/or pictures to encourage communication.

• Students choose from a variety of topics and use tools to present the information, as well as their own thoughts and feelings on the topic. Tools to help communicate their presentation may be:
• Movie apps
• Book creator apps,
• Document camera
• Visual aids
• Seesaw digital portfolio app
• Students present on topic to share information learned. Students will use an image projected on the screen from a computer or document camera, to enhance their presentation.

Deeper

Acquisition 

• Allow students to take photos and/or videos on any given topic which are then added to a movie app of their choice to create a movie of their pictures.