ELA21.7.11

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 7

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.

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.

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.