This document discusses new literacy tools and projects that can be used in ELL classrooms. It describes how new literacy incorporates multi-modal information like videos and images, which engages students more than traditional text-based literacy. Some recommended new literacy strategies for ELLs include using wikis for collaborative writing, creating webographies to evaluate online sources, writing fanfiction about topics with which students are familiar, and developing digital stories that incorporate multiple media forms to help bridge gaps in English comprehension.

1. New Literacy and ELLs: Tools and
Projects for Educators in ELL
Classrooms
Nick Mancini
April 27, 2016

2. Multi-Modality and New Literacy
Old, boring, dying literacy New literacy

3.  Student Interest
 New literacy, technology, multi-modal information and
assessment
 Most media produced today is multi-modal
 Students need to learn to think critically about multi-
modal sources, not only traditional ones
New Literacy

4.  Wikis
 Webography
 Fanfiction
 Digital Storytelling
Strategies for ELLs

5.  Democratic
 All people are producers and consumers of information
 Collaborative Writing exercises
Wikis
Wikipedia.com

6.  Web based bibliographies
 Helps students evaluate online sources
 Students practice evaluating sources on topics they
have lots of prior knowledge about
Webographies

7. Fanfiction
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AAAWY/7Ya6_XrgHxo/s1600/producti
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http://orig02.deviantart.net/3d9b/f/2012/022/
d/d/what_is_this____fanfiction__by_baylee
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8.  High Motivation and Background Knowledge
 Allows ELLs to practice the writing craft on a topic they
know and like
 Enter at comfortable level
 Students can still be an important, included part of
fanfiction without actually authoring (and thereby learn
from model texts)
Fanfiction

9. Digital Storytelling
https://www.pint
erest.com/pin/1111
82684520928248/

10.  Ideally about topics students know well
 Uses multiple medias to bridge the gaps in English for
ELLs
Digital Storytelling