TEKS ELAR 8.8.F
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 examine how words, images, audio, video, layout, and links work together in a digital text. They explain how those choices affect meaning, tone, purpose, audience, and credibility.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can point to specific words, images, sounds, links, or layout features and explain their effects. They can judge how well those choices serve the audience and purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize the topic instead of analyzing how design choices shape meaning. They may treat images as decoration or assume polished websites are automatically credible.
How to Assess It
- Show one webpage or social media post. Ask students to name two modes, explain how they work together, and identify one choice that affects credibility.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed webpage cut into sections, then have them rebuild it and explain how placement guides the reader.
Ask students to write: How would the message change if the image, music, or headline were removed?
Play Feature Hunt, where teams find examples of navigation, hyperlinks, visuals, audio, and captions, then state each feature's effect.
Compare a news website, sponsored post, and public service video about one issue, then identify how each targets its audience.
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