Composing in Multiple Media - Literacy. The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing, written by the Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 11 key issues in the effective teaching of writing. Over the next few weeks, we will unpack each one. This week, we will look at: “Composing occurs in different modalities and technologies.”
Writing instruction must accommodate the explosion in technology from the world around us. These resources from NCTE and ReadWriteThink.org demonstrate teaching ideas involving multiple media. “The Interactive Potential of Multiple Media: A New Look at Inquiry Projects” presents the inquiry and literacy processes of two fifth-grade students as they created a digital video about African American history for a school project. In “Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres”, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair.