Text Meets Screen
Aligned to RL.4.7 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
What this lesson teaches
A story you read and a movie or play of that same story can be compared. Some parts match the words closely, and some parts look or sound different because pictures, actors, and music add new details. Notice what stays the same and what changes.
Worked example
A book might say a dragon was 'huge and green.' A movie of that book chooses an exact shade of green, a roar, and a way it flaps its wings — details the words left up to your imagination.
Practice questions
- Name one thing a movie can show that words on a page cannot.
- Think of a book you saw as a film and describe one part they changed.
- Explain how music in a movie can make a scene feel different from just reading it.
Watch the lesson
Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.
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Del Texto a la Pantalla
Una historia que lees y una película u obra de esa misma historia se pueden comparar. Algunas partes coinciden con las palabras, y otras se ven o suenan diferentes porque las imágenes, los actores y la música agregan detalles nuevos. Fíjate en qué se queda igual y qué cambia.
Ejemplo: Un libro podría decir que un dragón era 'enorme y verde.' Una película de ese libro elige un tono exacto de verde, un rugido y una forma de batir las alas — detalles que las palabras dejaron a tu imaginación.
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