Gunther Rolf Kress MBE is Professor of Semiotics and Education in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Carey Jewitt is a Senior Researcher, Culture Communication and Societies, Institute of Education, University of London. Jon Ogborn is Professor of Science Education, University of Sussex. Charalampos Tsatsarelis is Director of Research and Developments Centre, The Ziridis Schools, Athens.

• Rhetorics of the science classroom - a multimodal approach; multimodality; analyzing action in the science classroom; shapes of knowledge; rethinking learning in the multimodal environment - learning to be scientific; written genres and the transformation of multimodal communication - student's signs as evidence of learning; materiality as expression of learning.

'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice. This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about how meaning and knowledge are shaped by our modes of communication. The book appeals to a wide range of scholars and practitioners far beyond the science classroom.' Professor Ron Scollon, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.