Introduction: Negotiating new literacies in English teaching / Len Unsworth -- The designs of culture, knowledge, and interaction in the reading of language and image / Peter Freebody, Bette Zhang Bin -- Multimodal texts and emergent literacy in early childhood / Jane Torr -- Anthropocentrism and the haecceitas of nature in multimodal ecological discourses for children / John Stephens -- The role of colour in children's picture books : choices in ambience / Clare Painter -- Intermodal reconciliation : mates in arms / J.R. Martin -- Savvy Sambo : appraising an icon / Corinne Buckland, Andrew Simpson -- Machinima : composing 3D multimedia narratives / Angela Thomas -- Comparing and composing digital re-presentations of literature : multimedia authoring and meta-communicative knowledge / Len Unsworth -- Senior secondary English and its goals : making sense of The Journey / Frances Christie, Sally Humphrey -- Appreciation and interpretation of prose fiction online / Kristina Love -- The influence of images in reading comprehension assessment in group tests / Ann Daly, Kate O'Donnell -- Multiliteracies and "basic skills" accountability / Mary Macken-Horarik -- Secondary school English, literacy examinations and attitude : utilizing appraisal to interpret values in image/text relations / David Baxter, Andrew Simpson -- Assessing digital literacies : can assessment ever be the same? / Kay Kimber, Claire Wyatt-Smith -- Appendix 1: Performance terrain in shaping online multimodal texts
