Multiliteracies

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Multiliteracies include electronic literacies, techonoliteracies, digital literacies, visual literacies and print based literacies. Being mulitiliterate is extremely relevant to the early childhood context, because now more than ever children saturated with multimedia and it has become a way to aid effective teaching of literacy to children. The uses of multiliteracies in the classroom can support children’s literacy development in a digital world whilst also providing them with more mediums to represent ideas and to comprehend meaning in a range of texts. (Hill, 2006) 