“…art, dance, reading, writing, maths, sports, videogaming) are semiotic (Danesi, 2004; Wood, 2015) in that they use signs to convey meaning or are symbolic. We take a multiliteracies approach (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009) and see literacies as multimodal, meaning focused, and motivated; they involve specific social and cultural practices which differ depending on site and community (Berghoff et al, 2000; Gee, 2004; Wood, 2007, 2015). Emily, Tristan, and Simon made extensive use of the semantic, sensory, syntactic, and pragmatic cueing systems to make meaning (Harste et al, 1984; Harste & Albers, 2007).…”