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Postmodern picture books for secondary school students provide a rich area for teaching and learning. Postmodern literature and visual texts, because of their unresolved nature, provide avenues for critical analysis.

Process Activities VisLit Resources Visual Literacy scaffold PoMo Resources PoMo I.D. Scaffold Marking Guideline Conclusion Student Evaluation Teacher's Guide Teacher Resources Program Proforma THE VIEWER by Shaun Tan & Gary Crew Shaun Tan is an artist who, along with writer Gary Crew, has created a picture book that challenges our world view. The diversity of his images shows many different views of the world: historical, cultural, social and personal. The Viewer is a picture book that provides students and teachers with the opportunity to examine the ways in which meaning is constructed within a postmodern picture book.

Students need literacy skills to match their knowledge environments. UNESCO (2003) framed its Literacy Decade positioning literacy as a freedom beyond reading and writing, to include capacities for communication and equal participation in the world. This recognizes multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996) and a knowledge paradigm of multi-modal, constantly shifting, non-linear communication, especially in digital form, that has shifted how we understand literacy.

A comprehensive site on illustration - media, style, design - and picture books including page to screen, banned books, parodies as well as teacher resources..