Rethinking literacy: communication, representation and text

In this article I want to consider shifts in the use of the word ‘literacy’ and the implications for classroom work with texts, particularly the implications of the rapid and radical emergence of new relationships between different modes of representation and communication (Kress, 2003; Raney, 1996; Unsworth, 2001). My concern is to argue that any approach to classroom literacy needs not only to recognise the new forms of text which children...