Instructional strategies requiring transmediation, the process of translating meaning from one sign system (such as language) to another (such as pictures), are critical to enquiry-oriented classrooms because learners must invent a connection between the systems. This article, drawing on semiotic theory, explores how transmediation achieves its…

An elementary teacher investigates a way of telling a story using only pictures. In another article (EJ 527 113) this teacher and his students considered how our writing system uses letters to stand for sounds or groups of sounds, experimenting with Kiowa picture writing. (Author/RK)