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📖 6th Grade · ELARL.6.7Unit 8: Poetry & drama

Text vs performance

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🎯 Objective: Students compare reading a text to hearing or viewing it.

Lesson outline

  1. Read then watch/listen.
  2. Compare.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one difference.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.6.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Analyze how a stanza or scene fits the structure
  • Compare reading a text to listening or viewing it

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Point of view📚 All 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Poetry & drama”

  1. Poetic structure
  2. Drama
  3. Text vs performance

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