One effective curriculum resource that engages learners in meaning-making texts moving between images and writing is the "Pictures First" Writing Workshop. In this model, particularly common in early and elementary literacy classrooms, students are encouraged to create a detailed, well-developed picture or drawing before they begin any drafting of words.

Synaesthesia- Students first construct meaning spatially and visually through the act of drawing. This is a visual and kinesthetic mode. They then translate or transmediate that visual narrative into a sequential, linguistic form, the written story. The rich details in the picture become a concrete scaffold for generating descriptive language, sentence structure, and narrative flow in their writing. The process requires them to shift the information from a simultaneous, image-based meaning-making system to a linear, text-based one.

Integrated, Multimodal Learning: This approach is fundamentally multimodal because it values both the visual and the written modes as equal and interdependent forms of communication. The image is not just an illustration; it is the initial text that dictates the subsequent written text. The integration of drawing (visual/kinesthetic) and writing (linguistic) engages multiple sensory and cognitive pathways, deepening comprehension of the subject matter and strengthening the overall creation of the final, cohesive multimodal text. It allows students who may struggle with one mode to find confidence and expression through another, thereby making the learning more inclusive and powerful