​Digital Texts

• ​Readers think about digital texts as well

  • ​Online articles

  • ​YouTube videos

  • ​School website

  • ​Google Classroom

  • ​Online math program

  • Kindle​

• ​No matter where you are reading text, it is all valuable.

• ​We spend so much time online that we need to be aware of our thinking voice while reading digital texts.

Audio Texts​

​Voice recordings of someone reading out loud (narrating a novel or video)

​Reading Voice:

• ​words spoken, sound effects, music, instruments

​Thinking Voice:

• ​Volume, silence, inflection, pacing/speed

​Video/Multimodal Texts

​Texts with words, sounds, and visuals.

• ​Commercials

• ​Ted Talks

• ​Animated videos

• ​TikToks

• ​America's Funniest Video clips

​You may need to play the video multiple times to see all of the details.