Multimodal text is a type of communication that uses more than one mode of communication to convey a message. These modes of communication can include written language, visual imagery, audio, spatial arrangements, and gestures. Multimodal texts can be found across various platforms, such as books, advertisements, websites, films, and video games. They are particularly common in digital environments, where technology enables the easy combination of various media forms. Multimodal texts can be paper-based, digital, live, or transmedia. There are five modes of multimodal text: linguistic, visual, aural, gestural, and spatial. Most multimodal texts include a variety of these modes of communication, but one is often emphasized more than others. Examples of multimodal texts include websites, infographics, podcasts, videos, posters, collages, zines, comic books, or graphs. Multimodal composing practice has been integrated into many First-Year Writing classrooms across the US since the 1990s.