Understanding and responding to printed text is no longer sufficient for literacy in today's world. We now have to incorporate the new literacies. In order for comprehension and communication to take place effectively, students need to be able to interpret and use not only words but also images, font, sound and background themes.
The positioning of images on the page and the type of image used (e.g. true to life, comic or animated) prompts a specific reaction from the reader/viewer. the type and size of font and its colour also adds to the author's message. the absence or inclusion of sound and the type of sound (e.g. tempo,genre and pitch0 also evokes a certain response from the reader/viewer. the choice of background in tandem with the previously mentioned elements helps to guide the reader's focus on the screen or page.
I began to pay closer attention to these elements after the laboratory sessions on eBooks and digital storytelling and also from the class' discussions during the plenary session on evaluating websites.
The news here (good or bad ? You decide.) is that "children have always been multimodal; their social and cultural resources for making meaning include talk, gesture, drama drawing and ways of incorporating and integrating and extending linguistic signs " (Hasset,& Curwood, 2009.p271).This quote Hasset,D., & Curwood, S.,J.(2009) Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms.The Reading Teacher 63(4) pp.270-282. DOI 10.1598/RT.63.42
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