Your guide to teaching multimodal texts: clear, research-based strategies for integrating visual, written, and spoken literacies across all subjects, with practical classroom activities.
By Jon Callow
We read, view and communicate in a variety of ways in our everyday lives. The shape of text to come: How image, text and other modes work provides a theoretical framework for understanding and working with visual and multimodal texts for both practicing educators and students.
This book explores the breadth of multimodal texts and how they can make meaning, unearthing links between spoken, written and visual literacies in formats as wide-ranging as imaginative play, including video games; music and sound; still and moving images; fashion, layout and design, including web design; picture books, comics and graphic novels; advertising and more.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this thoroughly researched second edition reconsiders the role of multimodal texts in teaching and learning. It examines how we develop metalanguages for meaning-making and identifies core principles for investigating visual and multimodal texts in the classroom.
With an updated collection of striking images and references to a variety of quality texts, this second edition makes connections across all key learning areas and is closely linked to the new Australian Curriculum. It features refreshed classroom strategies and activities for exploring visual and multimodal texts, integrating appropriate information communication technology along the way.
Why purchase this book?
- The opening chapter provides a grounding in the critical theory that underpins this text, in an accessible and demonstrated way.
- A smorgasbord of multimodal texts are used throughout the book as examples that teachers can use in their own classrooms, or apply the approaches and strategies included to texts of their own choosing. Quality literature, advertisements, movies, animations, video games and more are all used as examples.
- Chapters 3 - 5 (each focusing on a different aspect of a social semiotic framework of register as applied to multimodal texts) all finish with two different worked examples: Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks is used in each chapter for consistency, and then another multimodal text is additionally examined.
- The concluding chapter provides practical examples across text types (imaginative, informative and persuasive) of how teachers can teach multimodal literacy in their classroom using explicit teaching strategies.
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Intended audience
Pre-service teachers
Early career educators
Teacher librarians
Classroom teachers
Literacy Leaders
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