Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Text features are items like charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages.
- Text features can provide additional information or enhance understanding of the text.
- Text can be structured in different ways, depending on the type of information that is being communicated.
- A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different.
- Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved.
- Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify digital and print text features and structures.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures in communicating the intended meaning.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Text features can be found in printed and digital text materials.
- Text features often provide important information about details in the text or can enhance understanding of details in the text.
- Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text.
- They can demonstrate comprehension of the text by evaluating on the purpose and effectiveness of the text features and structure the author chose to use.
Vocabulary
- Determine
- Evaluate
- Effectiveness
- Digital text features
- Print text features
- Text structures
- Comparison and contrast
- Problem and solution
- Cause and effect
