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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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: W.5.4; SL.5.5 · 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, 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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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 add a photo to a report on a lighthouse?

    • it shows what words alone cannot
    • to fill the page
    • to hide errors

  2. Question 2

    For a message to a younger class, you should…

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

  3. Question 3

    A poster should have…

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

  4. Question 4

    Which text mixes several modes?

    • a list of words
    • a digital story with narration and pictures
    • a ruler

  5. Question 5

    Which is a mode of communication?

    • sound
    • spelling
    • a comma

  6. Question 6

    A poem is performed as audio with a drawing beside it. Which two modes are mixed?

    • smell and sound
    • touch and taste
    • sound and image

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