Multiliteracies discuss two main aspects of language in our modern world: multiple meanings depending on culture, or domain specific contexts and the many modes of meaning making such as digital information and communications media (Facebook, news station shows, etc.). In short literacy looks very different today than it did 100 years ago. In schools we cannot simple teach the "3 Rs: Readin', Ritin', and Rithmatic." Literacy is more multi-faceted than ever. We need to teach differing cultural normas, because we are much more in contact with diverse cultures than ever before in our digitally connected world. We need to teach how text, audio, video, and graphics all come together. It cannot simply be novel and grammar teaching in a literacy classroom any longer.

Crictical Literacies is the theory that literacy should be democratic, active and participatory, is about education and learning together, and involves personal and transformative for the learner. In critical literacies students deal with real life issues, their experiences, and their opinions. They also become competent communicators of these things. They are then ablet to function as literate adults. I resonated most with this theory, In the classroom I would love to have students be able to bring in their personhood and give them more agency. I think preparing them for real life situations would promote more buy in from them and more authentic learning interactions.

Cognitive Process Perspectives on Writing's main goal is to provide an understanding of human performance, learning, differences among people, and development by investigating thinking processes. Hayes and Flower model helps us think about the writing process and focueses on two main parts environment (writing assignment and external storage) and individual. Hayes' revised version adds self-regulation, motivation, transcipting to working memory. This opened my eyes to my students' writing. My leaners struggle with self-regulation and transtiption. It is hard for them to self-regulate, because writing can be aversive and hard for them. Trascription is hard for them, because often it is not unconscious as discussed in the video they must actively think about grammar and spelling. They do not usually have automacy with goal-setting, gathering information, visualizing, syntax, etc. Writing is laborious, so motivation is lacking. In terms of how to utilizethis theory I am unsure. I need help thinking of ways to make writing less overwhelming for my students. I have used graphic organizers and shorter prompts, but am still learning how to do this well!

Sociocultural Theory is thinks about writing from a social, cultural, and historical contexts. It provides students with different ways of writing and thinks about writing from differing perspectives. This theory reminds me of crticial literacy theory. I want to introduce this to my students through giving them many different writing and reading opportunites from different time periods, cultures, and voices.

I beleive sociocultural, critical, and multiliteracies seem to be similar. All want to honor and educate various aspects of cultural and respect the agency of writers. There are also differences: sociocultural focuses on multiple meanings and different modes, critical focuses on particpation and self awareness, and socioculural focuses on differing perspectives within writing from various contexts. I believe cognitive theory is unlike the other theories, because it focuses more on the process of writing.

As of right now the framework I see myself most trying to live out in my classroom is critical literacy. I want my students to be able to function as literate adults. I want them to be able to express themselves and particpate in the writing and reading process through discussion and see the relation of their thoughts to the real world. For example, I will often have a student read a news article with me about should women be allowed to play in the NFL or Gun control, we will then decide their opinion on the matter and use an organizer to help express and support their thoughts.

I had never heard of many of these theories. I liked learning the name, critical literacies, of what I try to implement in my classroom. I would like to work on implementing and understanding cognitve processes. Atypical learners often do not have the automacy needed for enjoying and excelling in writing. I want to look more into strategies I can teach them to help them have a flow and organization to their writing process even if the syntactic elements are not perfect.