NY Next Generation ELA 8R7
The Standard
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different media-- text, audio, video, stage, or digital-- to present a particular subject or idea and analyze the extent to which a production remains faithful to or departs from the written text.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students evaluate advantages and disadvantages of presenting a subject through text, audio, video, stage, or digital media. They also analyze how faithfully a production follows or changes a written text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student evaluates medium-specific strengths and limits with evidence. The student identifies a meaningful adaptation choice and explains its effect rather than treating every departure as an error.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may prefer a medium based only on entertainment. They may equate faithfulness with quality or list changes without analyzing why they matter.
How to Assess It
- Give a written excerpt and a short audio, filmed, staged, or digital production of it. Ask students to evaluate one medium advantage, one disadvantage, and one faithful or changed element.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Compare text, audio, video, stage, and digital samples using a strengths, limits, and fidelity chart.
Ask students when changing a source detail improves or weakens a production.
Play Medium Tradeoff Match with presentation goals and format choices.
Choose the best medium for communicating a public safety message and defend the decision.
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