Planning for Implementing Digital and Multimodal Literacies

 Introduction

    Previously, I have talked about the role of motivation on reading development for both beginning and adolescent readers, and how digital and multimodal literacies can be used to support literacy skills.  This week I will share with you my plan for implementing digital and multimodal literacies in my very own classroom.  I hope to begin these lessons in the coming weeks and will share with you the outcomes and challenges of my plan and teaching with digital and multimodal literacies.

My Classroom

    I teach in a rural Oklahoma Title I school as a reading interventionist.  I serve grades kindergarten through fifth grade in a small group setting with targeted instruction guided by their reading screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic assessments.  I plan to use the QUEST Model (Dobler and Eagleton, 2015) to implement teaching with digital and multimodal literacies with my fifth grade reading intervention group.  

QUEST and Reading Intervention

    I chose to use the QUEST Model for teaching with digital and multimodal literacies, because the format allows for systematic teaching of learning about digital tools and technology and how to use them for reading and writing experiences.  I also feel that the QUEST model allows for teacher guidance and instruction in a way that best supports my students who are struggling readers.  In my reading intervention students, I hope to build positive self-efficacy and reader identities by sharing reading experiences that tend to their motivation and engagement.  In the QUEST model, I feel that I can do this effectively by helping them to gain effective background knowledge of the digital and multimodal tools before requiring them to use them in their reading and writing tasks.  I also think that this model allows for me to differentiate and individualize experiences and skills that best suit my students' reading intervention plans.  

Here is the link to my implementation plan:  

QUEST Model Implementation Plan

In this plan, I have included the overall purpose for all of the lessons, the standards that will be targeted and met, and each step of the QUEST Model.  Each step of the plan includes the purposes for the lessons and what goals I want students to reach, as well as the handouts and materials to be used for each lesson.  

Dobler, E. & Eagleton, M.B. (2015). Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet Inquiry, Second Edition. Guilford Press.  

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