Preface 1: What counts as meaning? 2: Design 3: Writing as design 4: Drawing as design 5: Multimodal design 6: Redesign 7: Implications Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Diane Mavers is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literacy at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Children's everyday text making is remarkable in its very ordinariness. This book investigates the multiple ways in which children make meaning as they draw and write - in copying, online messaging, spelling 'mistakes', shading, layout - at home and at school, on the page and on the screen.