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Understanding Multimodal Texts

The document introduces the concept of multimodal texts, which utilize two or more modes of communication, such as visual, linguistic, and gestural signs. It outlines a lesson plan involving a pre-task, main task, and post-task activities where student-teachers Thaís and Vitória engage in identifying and discussing examples of multimodal texts. The focus is on understanding how images and text collaborate to convey messages.

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Understanding Multimodal Texts

The document introduces the concept of multimodal texts, which utilize two or more modes of communication, such as visual, linguistic, and gestural signs. It outlines a lesson plan involving a pre-task, main task, and post-task activities where student-teachers Thaís and Vitória engage in identifying and discussing examples of multimodal texts. The focus is on understanding how images and text collaborate to convey messages.

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Multimodality

with student-teachers Thaís and Vitória


Do you know what a multimodal
text is? Can you give examples?

multimodal
many modes
But.... what is a mode?

A mode is a system of signs


we use to make meaning.
We use many systems of signs to
communicate meaning, such as:

Visual Linguistic Gestural


A multimodal text is a text that
uses two or more different modes
of making meaning.
Like words and images:
Pre-Task (20 minutes)

Work in pairs to read and answer


the questions about multimodal
texts on your handout.
Main-Task (40 minutes)
1. Look through the magazines and find 2
examples where pictures and words work
together to send a message.

2. Discuss these questions with your pair:


a) What is the message?
b) How do the image and text help tell it?
Post-Task (15 minutes)
Now let’s share our ideas as a group.
Talk about what you discussed; what
the image and text communicate and
how they work together.
In case there is time left...

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