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With increased availability, accessibility, and capability of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, we argue that human processes of virtuous and multimodal composition can support meaningful communication. After defining our perspectives on writerly virtue and multimodality, we suggest how writers and their instructors might approach the use of AI tools in virtuous and multimodal writing and argue that writing processes promote human development, and the products support purposeful human-to-human communication. We explain our views of virtuous and multimodal composition with examples of writers across contexts and provide potential implications for writerly development and writing instructors.

In this article, the authors analyze the ways literacy integration evolved in a multi-year interdisciplinary after-school program that supports youth through a focus on literacy, physical activity, and health. To deviate from the increasingly siloed assumptions around literacy education and attend to a more interdisciplinary, integrated perspective, the authors theorized literacy across multiple theoretical perspectives to examine 5 years of program implementation in three different sites (New York City, Los Angeles, and Paraguay) with culturally and linguistically diverse youth (ages 9–14), program leaders, and researchers. Drawing on assemblage theory to guide the analysis, the authors sought to identify the multidimensional (im)materialities that converged to produce evolutions of literacy integration in an after-school program. Analyzing data for assemblaging factors that produced youths' literacy engagement differently throughout program years led to identifying three emergent assemblages that frame the findings: (1) Well-intentioned literacy integration but more complex than expected, (2) Imprints of schooled literacy with sociocultural emergence, and (3) Community- and youth-centered literacy integration. The authors conclude with implications for educators and after-school leaders seeking to integrate literacy with interdisciplinary aims.

Proficiency with sentence-level features of language is essential for reading comprehension of academic texts, especially for early adolescents who face increasingly complex, discipline-specific texts as they enter upper elementary and middle school. However, little research has been done to explore instruction in sentence-level features. This qualitative case study explores how a sixth-grade social studies teacher developed knowledge of sentence-level features and implemented sentence-level instruction through a professional learning inquiry, as well as how 3 sixth-grade students responded to challenging sentences as a result of this instruction. Findings from thematic analyses of both teacher and student data sources indicate that increased metalinguistic awareness of sentence-level features in the teacher participant was essential to effective, discipline-specific instruction in sentence-level features. Additionally, explicit instruction in sentence-level features led to increased metalinguistic awareness in students, which supported their comprehension of challenging sentences.

Dialogic talk affords students opportunities to share ideas and co-construct knowledge while developing various literacy skills such as perspective taking, text comprehension, and argumentative reasoning. In this study, we examine how seventh- and eighth-grade students in four classrooms discuss a controversial topic about changing a National Football League team's controversial name and analyze their discursive roles using thematic content analysis. We provide dynamic profiles of student speakers, including those who take on primary, secondary, tertiary, and periphery roles within discussions. We also discuss how these roles shift and provide implications for teachers who engage students dialogically around controversial, yet essential, topics.

This multi-year, ethnographic, qualitative case study in English Language Learning classrooms contributes a unique analysis of nine adolescent newcomer students' investment in a digital multimodal composing (DMC) project as a social drama. Using reflexive thematic analysis, it explores the following possibilities afforded by in-school, dramaturgically structured DMC processes for the students' investment in classroom learning: (1) changing the definition of the situation, (2) supporting students' impression management to gain social and cultural capital, and (3) creating bonds of reciprocal dependence and familiarity. The study helps language and literacy researchers, educators, and teacher educators better understand emergent bi/multilingual newcomer students' investment in DMC processes through the sociological perspective of dramaturgy, suggesting how DMC might deepen learning while valuing the assets of culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse newcomer students.

Scholars in recent years have explored the connections between video games, literacy, and learning. Research illustrates that video games can serve as texts for engagement and analysis in English language arts classrooms. Scholars have also demonstrated how games themselves effectively integrate a complex array of learning principles that help players understand and progress in the game. In this article, we explore how recent efforts in game design to promote accessibility for differently abled gamers have implications for literacy education that can promote inclusivity and equity in English language arts classrooms. While recognizing the social construction of the concept of (dis)abilities, we explore existing literature on the video games, literacy, accessibility, and universal design for learning. We then demonstrate specific ways that video game designers promote visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive accessibility for gamers and share how literacy educators can draw upon these strategies to promote accessibility in their curriculum and instruction to help all students engage, learn, and thrive.

This article considers high school students' relationship to poetry through a small-scale qualitative study guided by the question: what happens to student perceptions of poetry when class begins each day with a poem? As a former teacher and current teacher educator, I conducted a series of interviews with a small group of my former students regarding their experiences with poetry throughout their K-12 education and with hearing a poem each day in their high school English Language Arts classroom. I sought to explore the dimensions and possibilities of non-analytical literacy practices in addition to student perceptions of poetry as they relate to schooling contexts more broadly.

Nordquist, B, Lueck, A. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 2020; 64.3: 251–257. https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jaal.1097

This article should include an attribution to the work of Bethany Monea, whose language was used without proper attribution by Nordquist in the third paragraph on page 251. This paragraph should have quoted Monea's dissertation proposal in addition to citing her published dissertation for further context. We sincerely apologize to Dr. Monea. A corrected version of the paragraph should read: “As Bethany Monea (2023) demonstrates in her dissertation, Composing Borderlands: The Lives and Literacies of First-Generation, Latinx Youth Transitioning to College Writing, differences between secondary and tertiary literacy instruction have been widely researched across fields of literacy education and writing studies (Addison & McGee, 2010; Brockman, Taylor, Crawford, & Kreth 2010; Denecker, 2013; Hannah & Saidy, 2014; Patterson & Duer, 2006; Reiff & Bawarshi, 2011; Wilder & Yagelski, 2018). Monea (2019) asserts that ‘These differences range from the types of writing students are asked to do (DeStigter, 2015), to the syntactic features students will be expected to use (Brown & Aull, 2017), to the terms teachers use to assign and talk about writing (Hannah & Saidy, 2014)’” (p. 15–16).

Monea, B. (2023). Composing Borderlands: The Lives and Literacies of First-Generation, Latinx Youth Transitioning to College Writing. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Scholarly Commons.

Monea, B. (2019). The Digital Composing Practices of First-Generation-to-College Students Across and Beyond the High School and College Curriculum. Unpublished Dissertation Proposal. University of Pennsylvania.

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Preparing future teachers to read and respond to student writing is an important part of learning to teach writing. However, preservice teachers (PSTs) often do not have authentic opportunities to read and respond to student writing in methods courses. To create and provide more opportunities for reading and responding to student writing, I partnered with a local high school teacher and her student writers. In this article, I share why it is important for PSTs to have opportunities to read and respond to student writing, a university–school partnership designed to foster these opportunities, and observations from year one of implementation of the partnership. I end the article with important considerations for creating a partnership to foster opportunities to read and respond to student writing.