4.9.F
ELA4th GradeThe student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
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 used in webpages, videos, slides, apps, and other digital texts. They explain how words, images, audio, video, links, and navigation tools work together.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify features such as menus, hyperlinks, audio, video, images, captions, and interactive buttons. They can explain how each feature supports meaning, purpose, or navigation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think any text viewed on a screen is a digital text with special features. They may treat images, audio, captions, and links as decoration instead of sources of meaning.
How to Assess It
- Show a webpage screenshot with a heading, image, caption, and hyperlink. Ask students to label three features and explain how one helps the reader.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed webpage screenshot and sticky notes to label menus, links, images, captions, and other digital features.
Ask students to write which feature they would keep if a digital article could include only one, then defend their choice.
Play a matching game where students pair feature cards, such as hyperlink or caption, with the correct purpose card.
Compare a printed weather forecast with a weather app, then list what the app adds and how those features help users.
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