CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7
The Standard
Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read a literary text, then listen to or watch a performed version. They compare their imagined images, sounds, mood, and characters with the choices made in the performance.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify clear similarities and differences between their mental version and a performed version. They support comparisons with specific words from the text and details from the performance.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each version instead of comparing their effects. They may call every adaptation difference a mistake or give a preference without evidence.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one difference between your imagined version of the scene and the filmed version. Explain how that difference affected mood, character, or meaning.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a poem and colored sticky notes; they mark words shaping mental images, then add different colors after hearing a recording.
Ask, "How did the actor's voice change your view of the speaker?" Students answer with one text detail and one performance detail.
Play Adaptation Match: teams pair text excerpts with audio clips, then earn points by explaining a matching or contrasting mood.
Compare a novel scene with its film trailer and discuss how music, lighting, and editing shape what audiences expect.
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