“…The explicit directive to describe what one sees first, as opposed to summarizing what one has read, underlines the process of visual exploration that has traditionally gone into reading graphic texts, but that has less frequently been associated with building skills of literary analysis. Chun (, p. 144) has observed that traditional secondary and postsecondary language pedagogy “has ignored the dynamic relationships of visual images to the written word, and argues for a “multiliteracies approach that deepens reading engagement.” Representing just such a multiliteracy approach, the Comprehension: Milestone (Level 2) goal is for students to recognize how “textual features (e.g., sentence and paragraph structure or tone) contribute to the author's message [and to] draw basic inferences about context and purpose of text.” Because in my curriculum, textual features also refer to visual elements, students must perform a simultaneous close reading of the words and the images: “Kommentieren Sie die Form und die Sprache. Wie wird die Geschichte erzählt?…”