Any kind of movement that communicates with a reader uses the gestural mode. It's easy to compose a multimodal text. It's actually impossible not to create a multimodal text. When we add words to a word processing document, for example, we may not think about the multimodal communication we are using.

How is multimodal text created?

Multimodal texts combine two or more modes such as written language, spoken language, visual (still and moving image), audio, gestural, and spatial meaning (The New London Group, 2000; Cope and Kalantzis, 2009).

How effective is using multimodal text?

Multimodal texts have the ability to improve comprehension for students. When students learn through different modes, they have opportunities to learn and understand information in different ways. ... Also, having the information repeated in a different format can improve comprehension.