This article describes how to design an entangled literacy model, which blends verbal skills with multimodal features of visual, auditory, and other sensory cues to enable students to experience online classes with authentic and comprehensible material; paying attention to modes of communication in online classes also helps approximate face-to-face activities that engage students with comprehensible input and result in authentic communication. When an instructor considers modes of communication along with multimodal skills and materials, students are better equipped to communicate and consider input authentically. Included in the article are five example activities that will illustrate the different ways multimodal materials combine with modes of communication to create authentic online communicative activities.