Multimodal literacy

I've adapted and merged the literacy training activities with the NeCoTIP info for BDA strategies. Notably, for ‘After’ activities, the students have been working on multimodal literacy. Students work on visual literacy by drawing a specific representation using details or inferences gleaned in the reading. Depending on the visual activity, an actual representation can be shown for comparison (this was done with a nanoparticle reading). Alternative literacy is addressed by allowing the students to complete an activity using texting, foreign language, or slang formats. The culminating activity is writing in ‘Standard’ literacy. This topic has been addressed with the students as the bar to be measured by; for example: in China the standard literacy would be Chinese; France, French; and the US, English. The intention is to help students understand why a standard literacy is used and to bolster their writing abilities.