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Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

This book is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy andhow to teach it. This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of visual and multimodal texts, including historical fiction, picturebooks, advertisements, websites, comics, graphic novels, news reports, and film. Each unit of study presented contains suggestions for selecting cornerstone texts and visual images and launching the unit, as well as lesson plans, text sets, and analysis guides. These units are designed to be readily adapted to fit the needs of a variety of settings and grade levels.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 189
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780807754719
  • Genres
  • research, teaching
  • Release date
  • 2013