Multimodal literacy Resources
Literacy is the repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills that enables us all to participate in social, cultural and political life. Many now recognise that this repertoire has to include the ability to ‘read’ and ‘write’ in media other than print: in moving images and audio, and in the hypertext structures of the digital world.
Reframing Literacy – BFI
A literacy curriculum for the 21st century should prioritise developing children's understanding of how the dominant cultural modes of speech, writing, performance, pictures, and moving pictures with sounds operate; how to choose from a wider range of texts than they might otherwise; how to read, interpret and analyse those texts; how to make them, and use their language systems to express themselves.
Reframing Literacy: a film pitch for the twenty first century – BFI
A group of 12 primary school teachers from a cross section of Swansea schools formed a network to look at the broad question, “What does it mean to be literate in the 21st. century?” To begin to answer this question, the teachers developed their knowledge and understanding of ways of working with multimodal texts with children.
The teachers split into two groups, one looking at how children respond to still and moving visual images, and the other looking at how children respond to, and then go on to produce multimodal texts. We have included some of the results of this network in this part of the website, hoping it will be helpful for teachers in Swansea who are interested in broadening their literacy provision. You will find a collection of teaching plans, some samples of children’s work, useful resources and additional reading material.
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Exploring Multimodal Texts
Reading Visual TextsPlanning Sheets |
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| Baboon on the Moon |  |
| Animations | |
| Carrie's War (Children in WW2) | |
| Centenary Celebrations | |
| Fairy Tales | |
| Macbeth | |
| The Gingerbread Man | |
| World War 2 | |
Samples of Pupils' Work |
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| Children's responses to Baboon on the Moon | |
| War Poem (original Textease Version) |  |
| War Poem (web page version) |  |
| Macbeth (Photostory) |  |
Additional ReadingResourcesGlossary| Developing a Vocabulary for Discussing Multimodal Texts | |
The Literacy Advisory team would like to thank the following members of the network, and their head teachers for their support in this venture:
Kathryn Lecrass and Gareth Mc.Carthy – Baenymaes Primary School
Sarah Reece and Rob Appleby – Casllwchwr Primary School
Katie Gregory and Tracey Magetts – Cila Primary School
Julie Dunn and Emma Richards – Dunvant Primary School
Hilary Pope and Geoffrey Davies – Grange Primary School
Angela Thompson and Elaine Tyler – Penclawdd Primary School
“The ICT and Literacy network project has raised the children’s awareness of how their literacy work can be enhanced by the use of ICT.”
“Reading images has stimulated imaginations, children have made connections and are asking more questions. Also their ‘reading between the lines’ is much better.”
“It’s great to see the different approaches from each school and also the way that the early years teachers in different schools approach such projects with their children.”
“Literacy has come alive! The children have really enjoyed the projects in the 21st. century and changing age of technology. Brilliant for boys and literacy!”
“Have really enjoyed using the Scholastic multimodal textbook, and hope to purchase copies for other year groups. So many new ideas have been presented, and I hope to use films and photos to begin many more topics in my classroom.”
