The use of PowerPoint to create stories was effective allowing
you to create a story board type piece of work incorporating text, image and
sound. The ability to add the effect of a spoken story or sound effects would
engage children in thinking of different elements to their story. The use of
image, text and sound to create a story incorporates lots of different mediums
to make up the text. (UKLA 2005) Multimodality is about developing ways of constructing
texts. It is important for children to produce texts using more than one mode.
(UKLA 2004) Readers have the ability to access texts in many different ways –
the writing, the pictures, the layout etc all have to be interpreted and are
all forms of reading in different ways. (UKLA 2004) Therefore for the children
to be able to put together a piece of text incorporating pictures, text and
sound this will take a “great deal of conscious effort”. (UKLA 2004:26)
QCA/UKLA (2004) More than words: Multimodal texts in the classroom London: QCA
QCA/UKLA (2005) More than words 2: Creating Stories on page and screen. London: QCA
The points you have made are similar to my own blog, as we both found that multimodal texts carry a range of different mediums in which children can access the text. This highlighted an implication for me as a student teacher, as I thought that the use of sound and images, could work as a tool for the inclusion of children with special educational needs into literacy. It would be interesting to find out if such texts are used in special educational needs schools, and if they have an effect on the children’s literacy attainment, or even just allow them to enjoy and access the text.
ReplyDeleteI agree multimodal texts do encourage and offer the children opportunities to think about the different mediums . I thought using PowerPoint to create a story would address children's difficulties which I experienced on placement of : selecting the main points of a story to tell and structuring the story .
ReplyDeleteUsing more than one mode is great. But can children become overloaded with muti-model facilities to use?
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