5.9.F
ELA5th 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 the words, images, audio, video, links, and layout used in digital texts. They explain how those parts work together to communicate information.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify features such as headings, images, audio, video, captions, menus, and hyperlinks. They can explain how each feature supports meaning, purpose, or navigation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think any text viewed on a screen is multimodal. They may treat images, sound, links, and layout as decoration instead of parts that shape meaning.
How to Assess It
- Show a webpage screenshot. Ask students to label three digital or multimodal features and explain how one feature helps the reader understand the message.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups printed webpage pieces, including text, images, menus, and links, and have them arrange and label an effective page.
Ask students to explain which feature in an online article helps them most and support their choice with evidence.
Run a feature hunt where teams find captions, hyperlinks, audio, menus, and graphics in teacher-selected digital texts.
Compare a weather app, television forecast, and newspaper forecast to identify how each format presents the same information.
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