ABSTRACT
Multigenre writing is a good fit for today's active students, as it both capitalizes on student need for variety and recognizes new literacies. Despite the seeming chaos, there is valuable energy, spontaneity, and creativity in the process. To begin to dismantle the metaphorical writing genre boxes, The author started to examine units and analyze what the components were for each. The Common Core Standards highlight argument, and argument, the structured format of convincing and explaining using evidence, can be employed by any content area. As he described earlier in this book, the TED unit divided up multiple tasks and combined them into one whole collaborative project. The author first spent his spring break familiarizing myself with the program by building an app with my then 6-year-old son.
