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William Romine; Delinda van Garderen; William Folk; Amy Lannin; Rachel Juergensen; Cassandra Smith; Heba Abedelnaby; Tracey Milarsky – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
Today's students live within a world filled with complexity, uncertainty, and misinformation; thus, educators need to help all learners, including students with learning disabilities, how to comprehend complex information about the natural world and make credible evidence-based claims. Our study is a first step in making this possible. In this…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, Middle School Teachers, Science Education
Ciotoli, Francesca M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Pedagogy that centers primarily on oral and written language significantly limits the educational progress of students with disabilities because it may not regularly afford them opportunities to express what they have learned. It stands to reason that increased opportunities for expression through multiple ways or modes of meaning-making will lead…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Photography, Self Expression, Students with Disabilities
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Casey, Heather – Middle School Journal (J3), 2012
Multimodal learning clubs link principles of motivation and engagement with 21st century technological tools and texts to support content area learning. The author describes how a sixth grade health teacher and his class incorporated multimodal learning clubs into a unit of study on human body systems. The students worked collaboratively online…
Descriptors: Human Body, Clubs, Content Area Reading, Grade 6
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Honeyford, Michelle A. – Literacy, 2013
This paper explores how students, as multimodal storytellers, can weave powerful narratives blending modes, genres, artefacts and literary conventions to represent the real and imagined in their lives. Part of a larger ethnographic case study of student writing in a middle years class for immigrant students learning English as an additional…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Literary Criticism, Realism, Discourse Analysis
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Spires, Hiller A.; Hervey, Lisa G.; Morris, Gwynn; Stelpflug, Catherine – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In light of emerging technologies prompting new avenues for teaching and learning, students are positioned to "create" to learn, with video production being an important process for literacy development. There is a growing need for innovative instructional practices in reading and writing that are aligned with student interests and the activities…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Student Interests
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Thompson, Mary – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
In this article, the author describes her multimodal teaching practices in her "Adolescent Literacy Methods" course at a graduate university in the United States. By doing so, she highlights content teacher's understanding and use of various multimodal texts to effectively teach adolescents inside the classroom. In lieu of this, she raises…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Modalities, Adolescents, Literacy
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Sheridan-Thomas, Heather K. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2007
Over the past decade, numerous literacy researchers have investigated the multiple literacies of adolescents. Connecting with adolescents' multiple literacies, including digital texts and high interest print-based texts, holds promise as a way to build bridges to subject area content and academic literacies. Although pre-service content area…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Adolescents, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education
Minton, Sandra – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
This book is developed to help teach curriculum through the use of movement and dance, while giving students a chance to use their creative problem-solving skills. The text describes a step-by-step process through which instructor and students can learn to transform academic concepts into actions and dances. Theoretical information is also…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dance Education, Movement Education, Learning Theories
Hinchman, Kathleen A., Ed.; Sheridan-Thomas, Heather K., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2008
Covering everything from day-to-day learning activities to schoolwide goals, this engaging book reviews key topics in literacy instruction for grades 5-12 and provides research-based recommendations for practice. Leading scholars present culturally responsive strategies for motivating adolescents; using multiple texts and digital media;…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Literacy, Program Development