Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Strategies to compare and contrast the effectiveness of techniques used in a variety of digital resources.
- Text sources can be used to create and answer questions, as well as develop new understandings.
- Literal questions are those that can be answered using information directly from the text.
- Interpretive questions are those that can be answered by inferring information from the text.
- Applied questions are those that can be answered using information inferred from the text and a reader's background knowledge and experience.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Compare and contrast specific techniques identified across multiple digital sources.
- Generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions in response to reading a digital source.
- Create new understandings in response to reading digital sources.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Different techniques are used across digital texts.
- Comparing and contrasting the effectiveness of an author's use of particular techniques deepens their understanding of digital text structures.
- There are three levels of questions that can be generated: literal, interpretive, and applied.
- Generating and answering a variety of questions helps to develop new understandings.
Vocabulary
- Compare and contrast
- Literal questions
- Interpretive questions
- Applied questions
