Developing+Multiliteracies

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 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Multiliteracies involve using different techniques to teach and learn literacy and language. It engages the learner through visual, audio, digital and multimedia, not just through print. There are four main reasons according to Campbell and Green (2006) in which multiliteracies are important to learning. These include showing the relevance to what is being taught in the classroom and outside the classroom and understanding of how multimedia manipulated.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">In discovering multiliteracies there needs to be an understanding of letter, words, drawings, icon, photographs and animation so that the meanings are communicated correctly. When developing a strategy for teaching literacy and language through multiliteracies it is important to actively engage children in viewing and creating multiliteracies, through relating to their interests and the world in which they live.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Hill (2006) highlights several design elements for multimodal texts when it comes to teaching language and literacy. Those include linguistic design, audio design, spatial design, visual design and gestural design.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">For some example of multiliteracies click here


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