Topic: Understanding Virtual/Visual Texts
Virtual texts are digital texts like websites, blogs, e-books, and social media posts. They can include links, images, videos, and interactive parts you can click or tap.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify different types of virtual texts and their purposes.
- Describe features of virtual texts (links, images, videos).
- Explain main idea and supporting details in a virtual text.
Media to Use
- Interactive websites: National Geographic Kids, Scholastic News Online, Time for Kids.
- Blog examples: Kid-friendly travel blogs, science experiment blogs.
- E‑book samples: Epic Books, Sora.
- Multimedia examples: Articles with videos and infographics.
- Virtual text anatomy: Posters showing parts like title, menu, links, media.
- Worksheets: Identification and graphic organizers.