This is my story: Latinx learners create digital stories during a summer literacy camp

Educators need to create opportunities to develop English language learners’ ( ELL s’) language skills through creative multiliteracy projects, identify ways to avoid summer loss, and harness the potential of parental engagement. The authors propose the use of a creative digital storytelling ( DST ) project to achieve these goals. The present case study draws upon a new literacy perspective to examine the impact of a DST project on a group of Latinx students in a summer literacy camp. Through examining the process of designing their own family‐inspired digital story, the present study investigates whether a DST workshop, taught within a multiliteracies framework, can (a) serve as a creative space to encourage language use, (b) foster multimodal communicative competence, and (c) engage parents during a summer literacy camp for Latinx students. Specifically, we take multiliteracies as the pedagogical foundation guiding the DST project.