The current study examines how children develop multimodal narratives through the construction of quilt squares and I Am poetry. Creating visual narratives through the use of personal artifacts lays the foundation for this artistic multiple literacy experience. The study focuses on the process and growth that a diverse group of kindergarten…

The increasingly integrative use of images with language in many different types of texts in electronic and paper media has created an urgent need to go beyond logocentric accounts of literacy and literacy pedagogy. Correspondingly there is a need to augment the genre, grammar and discourse descriptions of verbal text as resources for literacy…

Neil Postman's article, "The Politics of Reading," reprinted here from the May 1970 "Harvard Educational Review," is the core of this book. Eight persons involved in various ways in the communications field (Claudia Converse, Ralph Staiger, William Jenkins, Robert E. Beck, John Donovan, Frank Smith, Lee Deighton, and Robert F. Hogan) reply to…

This paper compares the oral and visual representations which 12 to 13-year-old students produced in studying computer games as part of an English and Media course. It presents the arguments for studying multimodal texts as part of a literacy curriculum and then provides an overview of the games course devised by teachers and researchers. The…