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Multimedia Texts Set

Changing the Shape of Engagement and Learning in Secondary ELA Classrooms

by (author) Janice Marcuccilli Strop & Jennifer Carlson

Publisher
Portage & Main Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2011
Category
Language Arts
Recommended Age
7 to 12
Recommended Grade
2 to 7
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553792482
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $28.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781553793229
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $21.00

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Description

Today'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 multimedia text sets. Contributors to this book are Holly Dionne, Richard Kuhnen, and Stephanie Reid.

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.

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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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