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Teaching with transliteracy in mind means using as many medias, mediums, and student learning modalities as possible.  Here are some tools to help students read and write "all ways". 
One important tool for me was the district-adopted ELA curriculum, StudySync. It has a robust digital component that incorporates visual and audio text, videos, peer modeling, peer collaboration and review, and 21st century learning tools.  
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An alternative to writing a response with straight text is to create a storyboard. 
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Picturehttps://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teach-blogging (The Teaching Channel does not allow its content to be shared by embedding videos on other sites, but it's worth a trip to their site to explore resources for teachers.)
Blogging is a great alternative writing performance task and has the added benefit of providing an audience for your young writers.  Students can respond to one another's writing in a dynamic forum. ​
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Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
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