ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is to describe our methods for researching children’s texts and literacy practices as part of an overarching project on the spatialities and embodiments of childhood. We describe an ongoing ethnographic study with a six-year-old girl that explores the inter-relationship between digital and print literacies as she constructs texts during collaborative play. We use Fairclough's dimensions of discourse to analyse the processes, products and material and social conditions to analyse these texts. The longitudinal data set reveals how exposure to multimodal texts and technology enable the production of transmedia texts and become a set of embodied literacy practices. The chapter highlights the challenges and benefits of engaging in collaborative play as adult researchers.
