ABSTRACT
The chapter explores visual and verbal choices and their interplay in the multimodal texts that are part of contemporary curricula. It strategically focuses on narrative semiosis, considering the challenge of intra- and inter-textuality across various modes, while making the ramifications for study of persuasion evident. The emphais is on narrative as one site in which these issues can be explored with ramifications for study of persuasion considered in passing. The chapter then considers the interplay of different semiotic modes on single pages of The Great Bear and how this shapes students' written responses to questions about point of view. It talks about a multimodal text and what the tools might offer students' interpretation of unfolding meanings in a picture book like The Tunnel. The chapter also considers intertextual relations between different versions of the 'same' story, and finally considers multimodality from the point of view of creative work by students and the understandings that emerge from their transformations of narration.
