Reading & Writing Multimodal Texts K-6

- Nicole SpraingerCC0 Public Domain Image:”DemonstrationProjector” PIXABAY

NEW LITERACIES - What are they and why do we need them ?

How do we extend and if necessary redesign our existing literacy pedagogy

to accommodate the additional literacy skills needed by our students

within technologically rich classrooms

in which students will access and create multimodal digital texts

and engage in new social practices to enhance their learning?

ISSUE: Literacy today is going to be different tomorrow!

MULTIMODAL LITERACY‘refers to MEANING MAKING that occurs through reading, viewing, understanding, responding to, producing and interacting with written text combined with other modes, particularly with screen based texts.’

‘may include listening, talking, enacting and investigating as well as reading, viewing, writing, designing and producing such texts.’

involves ‘the processing of modes such as images, words, sound, gesture and movement within texts can occur simultaneously and is often cohesive and synchronous.’

Multimodal Literacy - Definition

Maureen Walsh. “Multimodal Literacy: researching classroom practice.” p12 PETA 2011

English K-10 SYLLABUS

Through responding to and composing a wide range of texts and through the close study of texts, students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in order to:

● communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing

● use ‘language’ to shape and make meaning according to purpose, audience and context

● think in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretive and critical

● express themselves and their relationships with others and their world

● learn and reflect on their learning through their study of English

Multimodal Literacy Syllabus Mapping

Responding & Composing

● The key processes of RESPONDING and COMPOSING are central to students using language purposefully

● Proficiency is also developed by engaging personally with a wide range of texts

Reading & Viewing Digital Texts

SEE THINK WONDER

“AMAZING! Orangutan asks girl for help in sign language” Rainforest Action Group. YOUTUBE 9 October, 2013

Reading & Viewing of Digital Texts

PURPOSE: What is the author/creator’s PURPOSE in creating this text?

GENRE: How has the composer chosen to communicate their message?

TEXT FORM: How is meaning conveyed /constructed between the creator and the viewer?

FEATURES: In deconstructing this text, what choices has the creator made to help communicate the message?

CRITICAL REFLECTION How will we respond to this text?

Literacy Pedagogy for Multimodal Texts?

Appropriate Literacy pedagogies for multimodal digital texts involve:

● exploring, appreciating and

● analysing texts,

● creating and sharing them,

● being discerning about them.

Moving Image Education - Scotland

Effective Literacy Pedagogy

Reading & Viewing Digital Texts

● Reading/Viewing/Listening to digital texts for enjoyment● Shared Reading of digital texts to learn about their forms

and features ● Guided Reading with digital texts eg Reciprocal Teaching● Independent reading of digital texts for information &

enjoyment● Responding to texts & composing digital texts of their own

Shared Reading & Viewing Digital Texts

The Mimis The Mimis Sample Planner

goo.gl/fRLBMfShared Reading Planner

Shared Reading & Viewing of Digital Texts

Use the planner for preparing Shared Reading.Identify some teaching & learning possibilities BEFORE, DURING and AFTER viewing to assist Stage 3 students to: comprehend; explore specific visual or audio conventions/techniques; & respond critically /creatively to the text.

1. GIVE SURF LIFESAVING AUSTRALIA HAND” - News Ltd

2. SUN DAMAGE -

BTN

4.NIKE _ ONWARDS by James Jarvis

3. TSUNAMIS - BBC

Webpage

Shared Reading & Viewing of Digital Texts

Choose one of the suggested multimodal texts view and respond to the text.Identify some teaching & learning possibilities BEFORE, DURING and AFTER viewing to assist Stage 3 students to: comprehend; explore specific visual or audio conventions/techniques; & respond critically /creatively to the text.

5. THE PENNY FARTHING -

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8. What makes Popcorn pop?

ABC Splash

6. INFOGRAPHIC for kids

7. THE ARRIVAL - Shaun Tan

READING: Responding to texts

Engaging in a range of creative oral/written response activities: responding to text events, characters and themes - drama; role play; writing ; digital composition;eg Readers Theatre, Hot Seat, Conscience Alley, Author/Character Interviews; Story maps; trailers; movies; slowmation; collages; comics…...

RESOURCES for Shared Reading & Viewing of Digital Texts:

Three Cs and Ss : Screening Shorts Resource Sheet

Ten Tools for Reading Film - Bill Boyd -The Literacy Adviser

Look Again: A teaching guide to using film and televisionwith three- to eleven-year olds BFI -British Film Institute

Pictures Tell the Story - A BOSTES Stage 2 Visual Literacy Unit

Creating Multimodal Texts - Blog by AnneMaree O’Brien

KidsVid - Instructional resource for film making in the classroom