6.8.F
ELA6th GradeThe student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
The Standard
analyze 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 how words, images, audio, video, hyperlinks, and layout work together in a digital text. They explain how those choices shape meaning, purpose, and the reader's experience.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify specific digital features and cite details from the text. The student can explain how those features guide attention, add information, or influence the audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list images, links, or videos without explaining what each feature does. They may assume every visual adds useful information or confuse a text's topic with its purpose.
How to Assess It
- Show a webpage with text, images, links, and a video. Ask students to name two features and explain how each supports the creator's purpose.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed webpage screenshot to label text, images, links, menus, and layout choices, then note each feature's effect.
Ask students to write: Why did the creator include this image, link, or video instead of giving the same information in words?
Create feature-and-effect cards for students to match, such as hyperlink with added information or bold heading with guided attention.
Compare a weather app alert with a printed forecast, then explain how icons, color, sound, and notifications change the message.
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