Your task is to design a multimodal document teaching your fellow classmates about active reading, its techniques, and its benefits.
- List the active reading strategies identified in the texts you read for this module. Decide which ones will be included in the document you design to teach fellow SLU students about active reading.
- Decide the look, design, and platform (brochure, bookmark, flyer, poster, infographic) for your teaching aid.
– Is there a template available that can save you the trouble of designing the layout of the page? (Hint: Microsoft Word, for example, comes with many creative templates to get you started.)
– What color scheme, font make sense for what you are trying to do?
– How can you share things you make in that app? (Hint: most apps can export or print to PDF.) - Decide what content goes where.
– What do the students you are teaching need to know to be able to read actively?
– In what order do they need to learn those things, and how will they navigate the document?
– What legal graphics, pictures, fonts, colors, spatial layout would help them understand the concepts you are trying to teach them? - Write your content and build your multimodal teaching aid.
- Annotate your final document, justifying or explaining the choices you made in it by providing at least 8-10 separate annotations.
- Upload your document with the title of the genre you chose for it: bookmark, flyer, poster, brochure, infographic.