Reading the Visual - An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

Frank Serafini

ISBN 10: 0807754722 / ISBN 13: 9780807754726

Verlag: John Wiley and Sons, 2013

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Inhaltsangabe:

Today's teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. 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.

Book Features:

• An accessible introduction to visual literacy and multimodality.
• Classroom strategies and demonstrations for analyzing and interpreting multimodal texts.
• Hands-on examples of units of study for ten types of multimodal texts.
• Resources for developing and adapting units, including suggested texts, analysis guides, and learning objectives.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Frank Serafini is an author, illustrator, photographer, educator, musician, and an associate professor of literacy education and children's literature at Arizona State University. Visit his website at www.frankserafini.com. He received the 2021 International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Education Award.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Reading the Visual - An Introduction to ...
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: HRD
Zustand: New