Anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath (1986) uses the term literacy to describe a wide range of children's interaction with text. According to Heath literacy events can include practices as diverse as telling bedtime stories, looking cereal boxes, noticing stop signs, watching TV ads, and following instructions for store-bought games and toys. James Gee (1990) defines literacy as not only the written but also the oral ways in which people control "secondary uses of language," which ultimately involve all the ways in which people communicate with social institutions beyond the family schools, workplaces, stores, government offices, businesses, and churches. In an even broader view of literacy some argue that in the current technological age, literacy is not limited to language at all. In this view, there is no such thing as "literacy," but instead "multiliteracies" (New London Group, 1996). In addition to language, these multiliteracies include visual meanings (images, page layouts, screen formats); audio meanings (music, sound effects); gestural meanings (body language, sensuality); spatial meanings (environmental spaces, architectural spaces); and multimodal meanings, which involve combinations of all of the above.