Meeting Readers: Using Visual Literacy Narratives in the Classroom

Pacey, a likable and literate eighth-grader, saw school as “a place that kills your reading.” With this alarming condemnation in mind, Kajder uses literacy narrative--a short, concise, digital video in which students meld still images, motion, print text, and soundtrack in communicating ideas/insights/discoveries about who the student is as a reader and writer--to tap into his out-of-school literacies, engage his interests, and get him reading and writing successfully inside the classroom.