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- Title
Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms.
- Authors
Hassett, Dawnene D.; Curwood, Jen Scott
- Abstract
This article describes multimodal classroom texts and the theories and practice that make multimodal education useful and affordable in schools. The article explains the process of exploring multimodal aspects of texts and the sociocognitive aspects of literacy learning. The article also describes a research project with elementary school teachers to develop and teach literacy curricula with children's picture books with visual and interactive textual elements. Also described are examples of how multimodal and sociocognitive aspects of texts introduce new roles for both readers and teachers.
- Subjects
READING; READING teachers; READING interests of teachers; READING interests of students; READING interests; INTERACTIVE books; CHILDREN'S literature
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2009, Vol 63, Issue 4, p270
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.63.4.2