Media+Literature

Media Literature and Research TEKS
 * **Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning.**
 * **Understand how communication changes when moving from one genre of media to another**
 * Explain how media design techniques influence messages
 * Compare various written conventions used for digital media (e.g., informal language in e-mail vs. formal language in web-based news articles)
 * **Identify relevant questions for inquiry such as "What Native American tribes inhabit(ed) Texas?" (K-3);**
 * **Use alphabetical order to locate information (1-3);**
 * **Recognize and use parts of a book to locate information, including table of contents, chapter titles, guide words, and indices (1-3);**
 * **Use multiple sources, including print such as an encyclopedia, technology, and experts, to locate information that addresses questions (2-3);**
 * **Interpret and use graphic sources of information, including maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams (2-3);**
 * **Locate and use important areas of the library media center (2-3);**
 * **Organize information in systematic ways, including notes, charts, and labels (3);**
 * **Use compiled information and knowledge to raise additional, unanswered questi**ons