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Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy Paperback – Illustrated, 30 November 2013

by Frank Serafini (Author), James Paul Gee (Author)
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Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it.

This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of visual and multimodal texts, including historical fiction, picture books, advertisements, websites, comics, graphic novels, news reports, and film. Each unit of study presented contains suggestions for selecting cornerstone texts and visual images and launching the unit, as well as lesson plans, text sets, and analysis guides. These units are designed to be readily adapted to fit the needs of a variety of settings and grade levels.

Book Features:
  • An accessible introduction to visual literacy and multimodality.
  • Classroom strategies and demonstrations for analyzing and interpreting multimodal texts.
  • Hands-on examples of units of study for ten types of multimodal texts.
  • Resources for developing and adapting units, including suggested texts, analysis guides, and learning objectives.
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    0807754714
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  3. Edition
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    Teachers College Press
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    30 November 2013
  6. Part of series
    Language and Literacy
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
  9. Print length
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"An important text, perhaps essential, for all educators who are interested in an expanded understanding of literacy."

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Frank Serafini is an author, illustrator, photographer, educator, musician, and an associate professor of Literacy Education and Children's Literature at Arizona State University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teachers College Press; Illustrated edition (30 November 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807754714
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807754719
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Dr. Frank Serafini is an award winning children’s author and illustrator, a landscape photographer, a devoted guitar player, and an Associate Professor of Literacy Education and Children’s Literature at Arizona State University. Frank has recently been awarded the Arbuthnot Award from the International Reading Association as the 2014 Distinguished Professor of Children's Literature.

Frank has published six books with Heinemann, including: The Reading Workshop, Reading Aloud and Beyond, Lessons in Comprehension, Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days and Classroom Reading Assessments. In addition, Frank published Interactive Comprehension Strategies: Fostering Meaningful Talk About Texts with Scholastic, and Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacies with Teachers College Press. Frank is currently working on a new book with Heinemann entitled: Reading Workshop 2.0: Teaching Reading in the Digital Age.

In 2008, Frank began writing and illustrating a series of non-fiction picturebooks focusing on nature with Kids Can Press. The Looking Closely series contains books about the desert, garden, pond, rainforest, shore and forest. In 2009, Looking Closely Along the Shore won an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice Award, and Honorable Mention from the Society of School Librarians International.

Frank was an elementary school teacher and literacy specialist for twelve years in Phoenix, AZ. He received his Masters degree in Elementary Education and his Ph.D in Reading Education at Arizona State University. In 2003, he received the Distinguished New Faculty Award, and in 2007 the Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2009, Frank received a Foundation Award at ASU for his Excellence in Teaching.

More information can be found at www.frankserafini.com

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3.0 out of 5 stars Oh the irony!
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I can't get over the greatest irony of this book: the fact that it spouts about the importance of multi-modal texts in a book which consists of dense text, and not much else!

The book does contain some interesting ideas, but I sure would have loved some tables or images to make it a little easier to follow!
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Words, Images, & Worlds
5.0 out of 5 stars Reaching across the Visual
Reviewed in the United States on 27 July 2017
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A fantastic book for teachers who wish to explore media and what text really means. This book shares research while at the same time providing strategies and real-world classroom applications. What makes Serafini's book that much better is that it doesn't just treat one area of visual media, but reaches out into many...picture books, graphic novels, film, and more are represented here. I have found this book to be useful as a teacher and in research.
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Nguyen The Hung
5.0 out of 5 stars It is so useful for me
Reviewed in the United States on 10 December 2018
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I'm researching about multimodal texts and finally I found this book. It is really understandable and helpful for me! Really recommended.
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Emma Hoehne
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
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Fantastic book for pre-service teachers.
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Olivia Stewart
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful!
Reviewed in the United States on 27 October 2014
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This is an excellent book that is written so anyone can understand visual literacy.
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