Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

6. Utilize Next Generation Writing Modes

Use technology and emerging technologies to support writing processes, practices, and products. To address inequalities in digital technologies and competencies, continuing curricular innovation in the ELA curriculum at all levels of K–12 education is needed. - NCTE Position Statement: Media Education in English Language Arts.

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Critical Components

● Be explicit in teaching and studying the writing modality based on mentor texts ● Focus on writing for a real audience and authentic purpose ● Show how writers are transferring a similar structure from one writing skill to a new genre or format ● Engage the writing process through to production ● Look for ways to use modes of writing that go beyond substitution, but instead allow for augmentation, modifcation, and/or redefnition.

Experiment with different modes of writing, beyond traditional writing formats, for real audiences and purposes.

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Last Updated June, 2023 Middle School ELA, Page 67