ABSTRACT
Creating an environment that nurtures culturally and linguistically diverse learners, encouraging their deepening self-awareness as well as our own, and explicitly teaching and practicing self-regulation strategies minimizes perceived threats and encourages writers to seek out rewards and build close relationships. Visual and spatial language affords many the opportunity to express all that print cannot, and in many cultures, story, song, movement, chanting, and dialogic talk are the primary vehicles for all learning. The planning wheel provides a fuller and wider view of a writer’s work and creative experience. Each includes a provocative prompt that’s aligned to the day’s learning targets, specific direction regarding the materials or modes that writers will work with, and tight time constraints. Vision boards are collages filled with images, patterns, words, colors, and textures that are the pieces of a multimodal composition.
