The Writing Workshop Teachers Guide to Multimodal Composition (K–5)

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Multimodal composition is a meaningful and critical way for students to tell their stories, make good arguments, and share their expertise in today’s world. In this helpful resource, writer, teacher, and best-selling author Angela Stockman illustrates the importance of making writing a multimodal endeavor in K-5 workshops by providing peeks into the classrooms she teaches within. Chapters address what multimodal composition is, how to situate it in a writing workshop that is responsive to the unique needs of writers, how to handle curriculum design and assessment, and how to plan instruction. The appendices offer tangible tools and resources that will help you implement and sustain this work in your own classroom. Ideal for teachers of grades K-5, literacy coaches, and curriculum leaders, this book will help you and your students reimagine what a workshop can be when the writers within it produce far more than written words. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Why It's Time for Workshop to Go Multimodal What's Print Privilege? Why Do We Do This? It Begins With You Who I Learn From How This Book Is Organized My Intended Audience Who Am I? Part 1: What Is Multimodal Composition? 1 What's Multimodal Composition? Defining Multimodal Composition Compositions—and Humans—Made Whole Workshop Is Everlasting Sixty Second Reflection 2 The Multimodal Writing Workshop A Peek into a Make Writing Studio Familiar Territory Essential Workshop Elements that Stand the Test of Time So, What Makes a Multimodal Writing Workshop Different? Four Ways to Situate Multimodal Composition Inside of Your Current Writing Workshop Begin with Identity Work A Peek Inside a Make Writing Studio Session Grow Your Curricular Toolkit Prepare to Document Your Learning, and Invite Writers to Do the Same Confer with Careful Intention Sixty Second Reflection Part 2: How Do We Create Multimodal Writing Workshops? 3 A Blueprint for the Multimodal Writing Workshop Learning the Language of Leaves Defining Your Workshop's Load-bearing Walls Creating Learning Experiences that Deepen Self-Awareness Building Trusting Relationships A Peek Inside My Practice Creating an Environment that Sustains Diverse Writers Through Diverse Processes Instructional Support that Prepares Writers to Produce Real Things for Real Audiences that Appreciate Them Sixty Second Reflection 4 Curriculum Design Defining the Ways We Create Curriculum The Essential Elements of a High Quality Curriculum Design Experience ACT: The Learning for Transfer Mental Model Situating Standards Within the Frame Hanging It All Together Sixty Second Reflection 5 Assessing Multimodal Processes and Products Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction Work Hand-in-Hand A Peek into My Documentation Process Documenting to Do Less Harm Grading and Reporting And What About Report Cards? Framing Better Feedback Sixty Second Reflection Part 3: How Do We Teach Multimodal Composition? 6 Mentor Texts, Planning, and the Essential Elements of a Multimodal Composition The Essential Elements of a Multimodal Composition Analyzing Multimodal Mentor Texts Differentiated Investigations of a Form The Designer's Notebook How Experienced Writers and Designers Build Prototypes Making the Writing Process Multimodal for Inexperienced Writers Sixty Second Reflection 7 Pitches, Prototypes, and Feedback Emphasis Contrast Color Organization Alignment Proximity Considering Design Choices in Mentor Texts Pitching to Peer Review Sixty Second Reflection 8 Launching a Multimodal Composition into the World Helping Our Youngest Writers Create Things for Authentic Purposes Helping More Experienced Writers and Designers Launch Their Work Timing the Launch Reflecting to Learn Publication Outlets for Writers of All Ages Sixty Second Reflection Appendix A: Planning Tools Andrea Schaber's Story Feedback Structures, Protocols, and Frames for Writers and Designers Five Ways to Explore Identity with Young Writers and Designers Appendix B: Tools for Writers Mentor Text Sources and Tools for Young Writers and Designers Multimodal Mentor Texts Publishing Opportunities for Young Writers and Designers Starter Sets