Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.4.7
The Standard
Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation, including making connections with what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read a story or play and notice what they picture or hear in their minds. Then they compare those ideas with an illustration, read-aloud, or performance. They point to words that explain a match or difference.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can connect a character’s spoken line to the way an actor says it. They can also spot a detail added by an illustration and explain that it was not in the text.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every detail in a picture appears in the story. They may describe a video without connecting it to any words on the page. Some treat an actor’s tone as proof of a character’s feelings, even when the text suggests otherwise.
How to Assess It
- Give students a paragraph from the current story to read silently, then read it aloud. Ask: “What did you hear in your mind? What sounded different when I read it, and which words support your answer?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs sketch a short scene from the printed words, then label details that match or differ from an illustration.
After reading a scene and hearing it aloud, ask, “Which line shaped the voice you imagined, and how did the reader sound different?”
Play match or mismatch: show three drawings of a printed scene and have teams cite a sentence for or against each drawing.
Compare a page from Charlotte’s Web with a film clip of the same scene, noting one sound the book led you to expect.
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Related Standards
- RI.1.3
With prompting and support, identify the connection between individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information over the course of a text.
- RL.6.7
Compare and contrast reading a print text and viewing its visual/oral presentation.
- RL.2.7
Use a story's illustrations and words in print/non-print texts to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting and plot.
- RL.7.7
Compare and contrast reading a print text and viewing its visual/oral presentation, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium.
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