Providing access to a variety of multimodal texts that align with the interests of learners allows them to practice digital, information, and Critical Literacy.

With figurative language and creative sentence structure, poetry supports the development of a deeper understanding of the different ways language makes meaning.

Selecting culturally responsive reading materials, including multicultural and diverse texts, is critical for supporting all students.

By talking through their thinking at each step of a process, teachers can model what learning looks like.

During guided inquiry, teachers foster student autonomy by designing lessons centered on meaningful questions in which students locate, analyze, and present relevant information on their own or in small groups.

As students move through multimodal stations pertaining to a particular unit, the social and physical nature of the activity supports deeper understanding.

Writing conferences allow students to fully immerse, share, reflect, and receive feedback during the writing process, promoting Motivation for continuing the sometimes lengthy revision process that occurs in the upper grades.

Audiobooks allow students to hear fluent reading and experience books above their reading skills.

When annotating, students engage deeply with a text and make their thinking visible while reading.

For adolescent learners, the Composition process can become more robust, as learners begin to express ideas through multiple media, which includes visual, audio, and digital production.

When students express information visually, they are activating more cognitive processes while problem solving and increasing their experience with alternate texts.

When students write from a non-dominant or marginalized perspective, they consider and give voice to points of view that are often missing.

When adolescents can connect and communicate with authentic audiences about their interests and values, reading and writing become more personally meaningful and relevant.

Student reflection on learning, particularly when done collaboratively, is critical for moving knowledge of content and strategies into Long-term Memory.