Category Archives: Digital Media

Images as Carriers of Meaning in Multimodal texts

What does this mean for First Graders?  As children begin to learn to read, we encourage them to make meaning from texts by referring to the illustrations to find connections to the print.  Images hold semiotic functions that work in … Continue reading

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Building Theories about Physics in Grade One

Providing opportunities for Grade One children to explore the big ideas behind Light and Sound is exciting and challenging. In most national science curriculums light and sound is explored at some point in the primary school and is linked to … Continue reading

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