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Multigenre Research in the K12 Classroom
Published on Mar 26, 2016
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Multigenre Research in the K12 Classroom
Creating Content Rich and Creative Projects
Red Clay Writing Project Saturday Morning Series
April 16, 2016
Cynthia Anne McLeod
RCWP SI '04
Ph.D., Language and Literacy Education, 2010
Media specialist, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School
Athens, Georgia
Editor, ALAN Online News
April 16, 2016
Cynthia Anne McLeod
RCWP SI '04
Ph.D., Language and Literacy Education, 2010
Media specialist, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School
Athens, Georgia
Editor, ALAN Online News
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Introductions
Don't read your journal entry but use it to introduce yourself to the group.
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Traditional Research Papers
Teachers' frustrations with traditional research papers
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Multigenre Research
- Engagement
- Social justice
- "Branching off"
- Documentation of sources
Advantages of multigenre approaches to research
- Student choice means more student engagement
- Natural way to focus on social justice issues
- Extensions that include fine arts and other creative work
- Student choice means more student engagement
- Natural way to focus on social justice issues
- Extensions that include fine arts and other creative work
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Tom Romano
What multigenre research looks like in the classroom - Romano and Grammar B
Mentor texts
Cultural context of multigenre projects
Children's literature:
Eliza Dresang described theory of Radical Change in books for young people.
Children's literature:
Eliza Dresang described theory of Radical Change in books for young people.
Radical Change Theory
- Changing forms and formats
- Changing perspectives
- Changing boundaries
Children's books as mentor texts for a different type of research.
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Hypertext: Text which does not form a single sequence and which may be read in various orders; spec. text and graphics (usu. in machine-readable form) which are interconnected in such a way that a reader of the material (as displayed at a computer terminal, etc.) can discontinue reading one document at certain points in order to consult other related matter.
(Oxford English Dictionary, 1995)
Ex.: My dissertation, per my brother's comment, "The way it was divided up meant I could find the interesting parts and read them first." (!)
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Exploring children's books
Gallery walk of literature
Hands-on exploration of books, discussion
Resource: Children’s book list (fiction and informational texts)
Resource: Children’s book list (fiction and informational texts)
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Starting with mentor texts
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Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly. Sometimes people mistake bats for birds. But bats are more closely related to other mammals—including humans—than they are to birds. And bats do not have feathers.
"Bat." Britannica School. 2016.
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The Bat
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.
—Theodore Roethke
From Collected poems of Theodore Roethke
My Doubleday, 1938
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Exploring student work
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Dialog
- Select a standard
- Brainstorm dialog ideas
- Select one to draft
Writing session: Select a standard from your grade level and draft a dialog related to the topic
Discussion: Troubleshooting - selecting genres appropriate to the topic; making it all come together; other?
Discussion: Troubleshooting - selecting genres appropriate to the topic; making it all come together; other?
Writing session 3
- Social justice
- "Branching off" into fine arts
Writing session 3:
Draft a piece in the genre of your choice.
Consider how to bring in issues of social justice and/or fine arts or other creative representations of your knowledge.
Draft a piece in the genre of your choice.
Consider how to bring in issues of social justice and/or fine arts or other creative representations of your knowledge.
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Wrap-up and evaluation
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