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
What This Standard Means
Students need to compare how a text feels when they read it with how it feels when they hear or watch a performance. They should notice choices like voice, pacing, music, facial expression, movement, setting, and camera angles, then explain how those choices change their understanding.
Mastery looks like using specific evidence from both versions, not just saying one was better. Students often get stuck giving opinions, summarizing the plot twice, or noticing only obvious differences. Push them to name what they imagined while reading and what the performance made them notice instead.
Ways to Teach It
- Have students read a short poem silently, sketch one image they imagined, then watch a performance and annotate three changed details.
- Ask students to write: What did the performer make you see or hear that you did not imagine while reading?
- Play one scene from an audiobook and ask students to list two performance choices and their effect on mood.
- Connect to movie adaptations by having students compare one book scene to its film version using a two-column chart.
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