2.9.F
The Standard
recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify features such as images, captions, audio, video, buttons, and links. They explain how these parts add information or help tell a story. They decide whether a text uses one or several forms of communication.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can examine an ebook, webpage, or video and name the features they notice. They can explain how words, pictures, sound, or interactive parts work together.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every text on a screen uses several forms of communication. They may treat images, sound, buttons, and links as decoration rather than sources of meaning.
How to Assess It
- Show an ebook page with an illustration, narration icon, and clickable word. Ask students to name two features and explain how each helps the reader.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed screenshots and sticky notes; students label words, images, audio icons, buttons, and links, then circle the forms used.
Read a digital story page and ask, “What could you understand from the picture or sound that the words did not tell?”
Play Feature Match: students match cards showing captions, play buttons, maps, and links to cards naming each feature’s job.
Compare a restaurant website with its paper menu; students identify which features help customers choose, order, or find the location.
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