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 

9.7.W.1 

Students will create a variety of multimodal content to engage specific audiences.

9.7.W.1

Students will create a variety of multimodal content to engage specific audiences.

Developing 

9.7.W.1 

Students will create a variety of multimodal content to engage specific audiences with teacher- directed tasks.

9.7.W.1 

Students will create a variety of multimodal content to engage specific audiences with guidance and support.

9.7.W.2 

Students will create engaging 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.

9.7.W.2  

Students will begin to create engaging 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.

9.7.W.2 

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

9.7.W.2

Students will create engaging 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 discuss 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 discuss 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 analyze 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 analyze 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.