Cycle 3 Action 1 Teaching Points

• Researchers analyze the purpose of a particular website. It sometimes helps to ask ourselves what we think the author's perspective might be and what the site is make us think and feel.
• Researchers understand that different features are used on websites for different reasons. We analyze those reasons by thinking about how the author or web designer used the features such as photographs, videos, and links.
• Researchers figure our how a website is best structured. One way we do this is by analyzing how certain websites are organized. We then ask ourselves what is organized well and what is confusing or hard to use on the site.
• Researchers begin to think about ways they may someday develop a good website, by taking the knowledge from their analysis and deciding what would make a good website.