Multimedia Texts Set: Changing the Shape of Engagement and Learning in Secondary Ela Classrooms - Softcover

Strop, Janice Marcuccilli; Carlson, Jennifer

 
9781553792482: Multimedia Texts Set: Changing the Shape of Engagement and Learning in Secondary Ela Classrooms

Synopsis

Foreword by P. David PearsonToday's multimedia, multimodal world necessitates literacy instruction that includes a variety of text forms (such as film, print, music, Internet, photographs). Strop and Carlson provide all types of learners with the lifelong tools they need to explore and interpret texts. This book will help teachers and students reach beyond printed texts to expand perspectives, understand different text forms and genres, make intertextual connections, and transcend strategy-based instruction.Multimedia Text Sets includes:- ideas for explicit teaching of how to read different forms and genres of texts. - real stories, which demonstrate the power of multiple literacies, from three teachers who incorporate multimedia text sets in their classrooms. - engaging ideas for instruction you can use to help develop your own students' reading/writing practices with a variety of text forms. - practical suggestions on how to create your own multime

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About the Authors

Janice Marcuccilli Strop, Ph.D., is a former elementary and junior-high school teacher, and K–12 reading specialist. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Language and Literacy Department, College of Education & Leadership at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI. Strop teaches master’s courses and teaches and advises doctoral students. She works with preservice and practicing teachers in using adolescent literature and multimedia texts and continues research on comprehension instruction.


Jennifer Carlson, Ph.D., has been a middle school teacher, worked in faculty development, and currently is an assistant professor in the Education Department of Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, where she teaches literacy courses in the master’s program. She works with preservice teachers, graduate students, and practicing teachers. Her main interests and research focus on literature-based literacy instruction and literacy across the content areas.

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