Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community

While many children grow up in linguistically and symbolically diverse communities, it is still rare that they encounter an early educational experience adapted to the complexities of their everyday communicational reality. This paper takes ecological multimodal approach a preschool’s book project multilingual community. The study examines web resources emerges from activities, actors interrelations during project. It shown how emerge when supported by active pedagogical community engagement, underpinning childhood literacy cross linguistic modal boundaries. uses interaction analysis show socioecological emerging come together interaction. Pedagogical potentials building on involving wider ecology complex settings are discussed.