gration: English Language Arts
Reading Process Activity Types
Twenty-three of the ela activity types focus on the reading process, including two prereading, fourteen reading, and seven postreading
activity types.
Sample Activity Type
Using Prior Knowledge
Brief Description
Students use prior knowledge and experience to help
discern meaning and forge connections with reading.
as a means of drawing on existing knowledge and
generating new connections with texts, students make
predictions about texts.
Possible Technologies
Wikis, personal response systems
Making Predictions
Digital cameras, blogs
Writing Process Activity Types
eighteen of the ela activity types focus on the writing process. These include three prewriting, four organization, eight writing, and three
postwriting activity types.
Sample Activity Type
Publishing
Performing/Performance
Brief Description Possible Technologies
Students publish finished pieces to share processed writing
with larger audiences.
Online publishing sites, participatory media
Students perform or possibly record their finished writing to
share it with a specific audience.
Videoconferencing/streaming video, digital
audio/video recording
Language Use Activity Types
Seventeen of the ela activity types address language use. Three address language exploration, inquiry, and awareness; two help students
with language practice; four assist with language analysis; five help with language conventions; and three help with developing vocabulary
awareness, use, and analysis skills.
Sample Activity Type Brief Description
Vocabulary awareness Students acquire new vocabulary and develop awareness
of various features of sets of words.
Vocabulary analysis
Students analyze new and existing vocabulary to develop
both awareness of core features and more sophisticated
understandings.
Possible Technologies
Concept mapping software, online
dictionaries, Magnetic Poetry website,
online vocabulary games
Concept mapping software, online
dictionaries, online vocabulary games
Oral Speaking/Performance Activity Types
Three of the ela activity types address oral speaking and performance. Performance can serve as a natural extension of oral language
instruction and activities.
Sample Activity Type
Speaking/Speech
Brief Description
Students produce oral language in a variety of contexts.
evaluating/Critiquing
Speech/Performance/
Production
Students build evaluation skills as they assess and critique
speeches and performances.
Possible Technologies
Digital audio/video recording, podcasts, and
other participatory media
Online rubric generators, digital audio/video
recorders and players
Listening/Watching Activity Types
Three of the ela learning types focus on listening/watching. a key component is the active nature of taking in information and stimuli, then
processing it to respond.
Sample Activity Type
Watching/Viewing actively
Brief Description
Students watch/view actively and process visual images
(still or moving, silent, or audio enhanced) learning from,
responding to, acting on, applying information from, and/or
creating memories in response to them.
Students listen, watch/view, and interact with or participate
in multimodal and multimedia texts.
Example Technologies
Online image/video sites, digital video
recordings, online demonstrations/
simulations
Multimodal/Multimedia
interaction
Participatory media, digital audio/video
devices for recording and playing files
