Med innehållet i fokus : Ritade bilders betydelse för innehållet i elevers berättelser

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to examine how drawings can develop the content in written stories of first grade pupils. The overall research questions are about how drawings can help pupils to express content, what drawings contribute to the written text when used as preparatory work, the interaction between writing and image from a multimodal perspective and pupils individual development, in terms of narrative writing and drawing, between two semesters. To examine these research questions twelve stories, written by four pupils in first grade, were analysed with three types of text analysis: a content and formal text analysis, a multimodal text analysis and a comparative text analysis. It shows that drawings, from a multimodal perspective, are useful means of communication. Drawing helps young pupils in the beginning of their writing development to express content in stories. It also seems like the development of writing are more prioritized then the development of drawing.