How to use Multimodal Texts to Teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Elementary Classrooms

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is becoming prevalent in elementary classrooms as teachers seek to help their students learn how to deal with their emotions, name what emotions they are feeling and why. Any literature, regardless of modality, can be looked at through the lens of SEL. Mental health is an issue that affects our academic and behavioral needs (Gueldner et al., 2020). Since mental health is on rise, even among young learners, incorporating SEL-based instruction is even more beneficial. As a future educator, being up to date on best practices will ensure I’m not only meeting my students’ academic needs, but their social and emotional needs too. This research is a content analysis of a variety of multimodal literacy texts for their potential to engage students in interventions that connect to the SEL benchmarks. While there are lesson plans specific to targeting SEL already created, the significance of this study is to evaluate the possibilities of taking any literacy text and optimize its potential for including SEL benchmarks. The study will be ongoing throughout the Spring 2025 academic semester and result in a text set with multimodal literacy texts and an SEL lesson plan based on the research findings.

Grantor dc:publisher

SUNY Brockport Department of Education and Human Development

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Ames, Kylie

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wright, Allison

• Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
• Multimodal
• Elementary Education

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/83128

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:soar.suny.edu:20.500.12648/83128