Language Arts, Vol. 84, No. 1, September 2006

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Issue Theme: Multimodal Transformations

• Call for Manuscripts

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  Keywords: Elementary

• Thoughts from the Editors: Words, Signs, and Social Relations

  Patricia Enciso, Laurie Katz, Barbara Z. Kiefer, Detra Price-Dennis, Melissa Wilson

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• The Mermaid's Purse: Looking Closely at Young Children's Art and Poetry

  Shelby A. Wolf

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  Abstract: Young children create poems, digital photographs, and other artistic creations that reveal the cognitive work, imaginative play, and problem solving that comes as they learn to see themselves as artists.

  Keywords: Elementary

• "There's Fire Magic, Electric Magic, Ice Magic, or Poison Magic": The World of Video Games and Adrian's Compositions about Gauntlet Legends

  Jason Ranker

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  Abstract: An eight-year-old boy, Adrian, draws subject matter and formats for his writing from a new, digital medium: the video game.

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• Exploring Freedom and Leaving a Legacy: Enacting New Literacies with Digital Texts in the Elementary Classroom

  James Damico with Ruthie Riddle

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  Abstract: Fifth-graders explore complicated social issues and create a CD entitled Exploring Freedom.

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• From Sharing Time to Showtime! Valuing Diverse Venues for Storytelling in Technology-Rich Classrooms

  Paige D. Ware

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  Abstract: Two nine-year-old children draw upon a broad range of storytelling resources (voice, print, drawing, digital graphics, music, and video) to position themselves as storytellers in a technology-rich summer literacy class, although the two approach their stories in very different ways.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Digital DJ-ing: Rhythms of Learning in an Urban School

  Jabari Mahiri

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  Abstract: Eighth-grade students and teachers in a high-poverty school work with members of a local nonprofi t organization to collaboratively create a multi-textual, digital project on poverty and its connections to homelessness.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Focus on Policy: New Literacies: Working with Standards and Stretching Professional Development

  William Kist

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• Review of Research: Rereading the Signs: Multimodal Transformations in the Field of Literacy Education

  Marjorie Siegel

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  Abstract: Siegel looks at what research on literacy has to say about multimodal transformations and what questions we might pursue to understand the possibilities such transformations hold for children’s learning and lives.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Profiles and Perspectives: Discussing New Literacies

  Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear

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• Professional Book Reviews: Professional Resources for Teaching Multimodal Literacies

  Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Ernest Morrell

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• Children's Literature Reviews: Children's Books in a Multimodal Age

  Barbara Z. Kiefer, Detra Price-Dennis, and Caitlin L. Ryan

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• In Closing . . .A Young Blogger Finds the World Waiting to Listen

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