ABSTRACT

In Chapters 2 and 3, we explored how personal narrative and Book Club discussions can assist learners in exploring complex issues related to diversity, literacy, and culture. In this chapter we will consider various perspectives on multimodal composition and how students of all ages can use sound, image, words, movement, and other modes to compose text. These multiple modalities provide additional avenues of meaning making to help learners explore diversity, culture, and literacy in complex ways. For teachers and other educational professionals, approaches to multimodality provide the opportunity to engage in a composition process that they could also, ultimately, use in the classroom with their own students.