Research project Multimodal text creation in the school's early years

Developing students' ability to create texts is an area that is traditionally linked to the Swedish subject. At the same time, we know that students create different forms of text in most of the school's subjects. Research has also shown that students develop both the ability to create functional texts and subject knowledge by being able to work with text in the school's various subjects in a meaningful way.

All texts are more or less multimodal, which means that they are built up by more than just words. If teachers work in a conscious way with students' multimodal text creation already in early school years and in the school's various subjects, students get the opportunity to develop their ability to create functional texts. In such texts, different textual resources such as words, images and color choices interact with the subject area. How you choose to build a text also depends on who will read it, and what it will be used for.

In the project Multimodal text creation in the early years of school, researchers and teachers collaborate with the aim of developing work processes and teaching methods for functional writing, where students in the early school years work to create multimodal subject texts. The project uses the theory Design for learning, and the teaching is planned and analyzed based on the model Learning Design Sequences (LDS) (Selander, 2022).

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