Assignment #3

Literacy-based Response (Multi-Modal)
Due Date: Week 14 (Class 23)
Course Weight: 30%

  1. Rationale:
    As a J/I teacher, you will need to build an extensive repertoire of literacy teaching and learning strategies for use in your classroom across the curriculum. Literature response strategies enable teachers to assess a student’s demonstration of their learning and understanding of the texts they read, and also lend themselves to consideration of ‘new’ literacies. This assignment is an opportunity to explore multi-modal ways for your students to respond to a literature selection. **This assignment is to be completed individually - there will be no exceptions to this requirement.
  1. Your Task:
    1. Identify a literature selection of your own choice, one suitable for use in either a Junior and/or Intermediate curriculum area. Using your MAC, prepare a computer generated multi-modal response to your literature selection. For example, your selection might be a picture book, a novel, a poem, or a non-fiction selection: The selection identified will provide the focus for your development of a multi-modal literature response. Using multi-media of your own choice, plan and present a response that represents your understandings and the connections made to the ‘big ideas’/themes/interpretations that resonate for you in the text selected. Your multi-modal response may involve text, images, movement, music and/or other modes you find relevant to effectively communicating your response.
    2. A Written Rationale that demonstrates your understanding of the uses of quality literature for instruction and learning in J/I classrooms. (Why this selection? What does it mean to you?) Your rationale should reflect a broad definition of literacy, as shared in class. You may also wish to use examples from your identified selection to support the points you make. Your written rationale should be no more than 2 pages in length and double-spaced.
  2. Assessment Criteria:
    Successful identification of a suitable literature selection for J/I levels; Successful planning and presentation of an effective multi-modal response (have you effectively demonstrated your learning and understanding?); Successful completion and submission of both the literature-based response and the written rationale, as outlined in detail above. Further information will also be presented in class.