Common Core Standards

Grade 6

Reading RL.6.7

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.

The point of this Common Core Standard is to have students realize that print is "special" compared to any digital or visual mediums, because print interacts with its audience to interact in a completely different way. With print, its audience gets to use their own imagination instead of having that of someone else's forced onto them. After all, how many times have we seen a scene translated from words to the silver screen and thought to ourselves, "Wait, that's not how I imagined it in my own head" or thought a character's voice sounded funky because that's not how he or she was "supposed to sound"? That's what students should come to realize, too.

Example 1