Multimodal Texts for Literacy Education
Multimodal texts are classified as texts that "combine ‘two or more communication modes‘ to make meaning, for example image, gesture, music, spoken language, and written language."(https://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/) A Multimodal resource can be:
Paper – such as books, comics, posters.
Digital – from slide presentations, e-books, blogs, e-posters, web pages, and social media, through to animation, film and video games.
Live – a performance or an event.
Transmedia– where the story is told using ‘multiple delivery channels’ through a combination of media platforms
(https://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/)
For students to be literate in today society they have to be able to create, interpret and question. Here is where multimodal texts and resources can come in handy. They allow for students to be creative, collaborate, question and interpret. As part of one of my units a university students had to research and find useful multimodal texts/resources for primary literacy education. Here are some that were found:
Some others:
These are just a few of the many resources available for primary school teachers (and high school English teachers). I think these are all amazing and will help to make your students literacy learning multimodal and really interesting as many allow students to very creative with their ideas, concepts and overall creation.
If you have any others please comment or contact me, I am interested to know about as many of these texts/resources as possible.