UP:ELA21.12.15

Vocabulary

  • Analyze
  • Digital texts
  • Evaluate
  • Effectiveness
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Credibility

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
  • Strategies to evaluate digital text based on a set of identified criteria.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify and analyze digital texts' subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of a digital text's subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
  • Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
  • The effectiveness of a digital text can be assessed by identifying its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
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