Reaching Struggling Primary Readers with Digital & Multimodal Text

  I have completed my digital and multi-modal text plan that I shared in a November post. This post will be a reflection on this implementation in my 2nd grade classroom. I created my plan for a small group of four students that are identified as below-level readers. I have a link to a slide that reviews my student goals which of course are important and central to the whole plan, but I also had a goal for myself with this plan. I set out to integrate digital text into my classroom to support literacy learning with a small group of students. Overall my students and I learned a lot about animal habitats and some of their habits through reading of digital texts, and I learned an equal amount about supporting literacy learning while using digital and multi-modal text along with digital tools to help students create products to demonstrate their learning. Student goals   Strengths and Weaknesses of the TPACK Format Strengths Weaknesses goals, strategies, and assessments are chos...

Personal Digital Inquiry allows students and teachers to be involved in collaboration to discuss, analyze, and reflect so that knowledge is gained and is evident in student creations (Coiro et al., 2019). As an experienced primary teacher, I believe Personal Digital Inquiry (PDI) is best approached as first a guided inquiry so that learners become familiar with the process. One of the authors of From Curiosity to Deep Learning Personal Digital Inquiry in Grades K-5 share the initial joy of her first graders as she explained late in the year that they would use what they learned from prior inquiry projects to pick their own topic and engage in an inquiry of personal interest. She described the students’ excitement by reflecting on nods, big smiles, and quiet cheers (Coiro et al., 2019). As I imagine the scene in that first-grade classroom, I can almost hear the buzz of voices as they begin to discuss and share their topic ideas with one another. Students are naturally curious about ma...