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This study explores how persuasive technology applications namely movie poster can enhance children-s mature morality. The combination of Aladdin poster-s semiotic modes initiates children to experience critical evaluation. In this mechanism, this study investigates Aladdin poster-s semiotic resources: (1) linguistic affordance; (2) visual affordance; and (3) spatial affordance. Moreover, by focusing on the use of semiotic resources to maximize the persuasive effect, Jewitt et.al.-s social semiotics is applied to approach to multimodality. Social and cultural construction influence meaning. This study implemented analytic descriptive method to explain the phenomena. The findings highlight meaning is invented using all semiotic modes which initiate children to experience imaginatively a specific journey. Children are motivated to make a certain evaluation, and to judge moral values conveyed in the poster. The obtained results also facilitate adults with a means to promote morals intended, and suggest persuasive strategies to communicate information.