The Writing Workshop Teacher's Guide to Multimodal Composition

by Angela Stockman

Multimodal composition is a meaningful and critical way for students to tell their stories, make good arguments, and share their expertise in today’s world. In this helpful resource, writer, teacher, and best-selling author Angela Stockman illustrates the importance of making writing a multimodal endeavor in 6-12 workshops by providing peeks into the classrooms she teaches within. Chapters address what multimodal composition is, how to situate it in a writing workshop that is responsive to the unique needs of writers, how to handle curriculum design and assessment, and how to plan instruction. The appendices offer tangible tools and resources that will help you implement and sustain this work in your own classroom. Ideal for teachers of grades 6-12, literacy coaches, and curriculum leaders, this book will help you and your students reimagine what a workshop can be when the writers within it produce far more than written words.

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2022

Reviews

[Mr. V. · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an awesome book!
This book will open your mind and broaden your definition of composition, and there is an amazing chapter on curriculum writing in here as well, showing how teachers might apply the same multimodal concepts to their own curriculum work. I love how the author is constantly evolving in her thinking, and as someone I have followed for a while and learned a lot from, I can tell you this book only helped me learn more. Definitely one for all secondary literacy teachers.

[K Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stockman's book is an excellent, clear way to continue and maintain multimodal workshops: I plan on integrating with my previous knowledge of workshops, #ML WIDA standards and the domains, and Dr. Muhammad's work on Cultivating Genius.