Digital+Story+Telling+in+TESOL

= Teacher-Composed Digital Jump-Starts for Academic Reading (Rance-Roney, 2010) =

Teachers can use **Photo Story or i-movie** to create a digital story designed to jump-start students' comprehension of a piece of literature or content text.

A **Digital Jump-start** provides **background information**, develops **schema**, and introduces **key vocabulary** that will appear in the reading.

** Example of Digital Jump-Start: **
__Introducing A Step from Heaven by An Na__ by Corinne Cohen (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeKCMMHUHTU

** Advantages of Digital Jump-Starts (DJs): **

 * DJs are **customized** to students' linguistic needs
 * DJs **intentionally** provide language input (lexical/grammatical)
 * DJs provide **multiple, repeated exposures** to academic language (written and aural modalities)
 * DJs can be converted into a **portable DVD format** for the students to take home and listen to many times

"When students approach a reading **with little or no schema** for events or contexts, **their comprehension often remains** **at a surface level** and the **text-to-text connections**, **text-to-self connections**, and an **awareness** of the relative importance  o**f concepts** within text remain **unanalyzed**" (Rance-Roney, 2010).

**Reference:**
Rance-Roney, J. (2010). Jump-Starting Language and Schema for English Language Learners: Teacher-Composed Digital Jump-Starts for Academic Reading. J//ournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,// 53 (5), 386-395

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