7.8.F
The Standard
analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine how words, images, sound, video, layout, links, and interactive features work together. They explain how those choices affect meaning, purpose, audience, and navigation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify features such as images, audio, video, hyperlinks, layout, captions, and interactive elements. They explain how specific features work together to communicate a message, influence an audience, or support a purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat images, music, links, and layout as decoration rather than choices that shape meaning. They may also judge a text only by its written words or confuse digital format with reliability.
How to Assess It
- Show a one-page news post with a headline, photograph, caption, and link. Ask students to name two features and explain how each shapes meaning or guides the reader.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a printed webpage to cut apart, label, and rearrange, then explain how the new layout changes meaning.
Ask students to compare a podcast clip and its transcript, then write which format communicates the speaker’s message more effectively and why.
Play Feature Match by pairing cards naming digital features with cards describing their effects on readers.
Compare two online weather reports and identify how maps, icons, alerts, and links help users make plans.
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