The Literacy Lab


image of Literacy Lab door    

The door of the literacy lab welcomes students into a world in which computers and related technology are used to explore topics of interest in a project-based curriculum.



In the project-based curriculum, students work at workstations around the perimeter of the room and use tables located in the center to plan ideas, arrange and compile research, and storyboard multimedia productions.

    row of students at computer terminals, with adult bending over offering one assistance

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Reading Online, www.readingonline.org
From O’Brien, D. “‘At-Risk’ Adolescents: Redefining Competence through the Multiliteracies of Intermediatlity, Visual Arts, and Representation,” Posted June 2001
© 2001 International Reading Association, Inc.   ISSN 1096-1232