Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy
ISBN-10
0807754714
ISBN-13
9780807754719
Category
Education
Pages
189
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Frank Serafini

Description

Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how 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, picture books, 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.

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