Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.5.7
The Standard
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning or tone of non-print texts.
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 watch an animated story or movie clip and notice choices such as color, camera angle, music, and sound effects. They explain how a specific choice shapes the story or its mood.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student points to a precise moment, such as a close-up of a trembling hand followed by silence. They explain how those choices show the character's fear, rather than just saying the scene is scary.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may retell what happens instead of explaining what the images or sounds add. They may assume dark colors always mean danger, even when other clues suggest a different mood.
How to Assess It
- Play a 20-second animated clip with sound. Ask: "Name one image choice and one sound choice. How does each shape the mood or your understanding of a character?"
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a flashlight and paper character; have them stage one scene in bright and dim light, then explain the mood change.
Play a 20-second animated clip muted, then with sound; ask, "Which sound changes how you read the character's face?"
Show three stills from one animated scene; partners match each to a mood card and defend their choices using color or framing.
Show a movie trailer; students point to a color or sound cue and explain what kind of story it promises viewers.
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