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5th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 11

Create With Words, Pictures and Sound

Choose fonts, images and modes for your audience

What your child practices

Planning and polishing texts that combine words, images, sound and video, and choosing fonts, layout and tools to suit an audience and purpose.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 5.31; 5.R6 · choosing words, images, sound and design for an audience

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A mode is a way to share meaning: words, images, sound or movement.
  2. Choose clear fonts and good spacing so text doesn’t run together.
  3. Pick the right tool: a word processor for writing, slides for presenting.

Example: Which digital tool is made for writing and editing text? You need a tool built for words. That tool is a word processor. Answer: a word processor

Create With Words, Pictures and Sound in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 9 of 11 in 5th grade English Language Arts, after Media Smarts and before Research Ready.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why choose a large, clear font for a poster?

    • to use more ink
    • to hide mistakes
    • so it can be read from far away

  2. Question 2

    Which font choice is best for a long paragraph?

    • a swirly decorative font
    • a plain, easy-to-read font
    • all capitals

  3. Question 3

    A poster should have…

    • tiny words only
    • no title
    • a clear title and pictures that fit the message

  4. Question 4

    Which medium is best to show how a plant grows over weeks?

    • a sentence about soil
    • a series of photos or a short video
    • one word

  5. Question 5

    For a message to a younger class, you should…

    • use long technical words
    • have no pictures
    • use simple words and bright pictures

  6. Question 6

    What should a slide in a presentation NOT have?

    • a short heading
    • a whole page of tiny text
    • one clear picture

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