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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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 5.W.4; 5.SL.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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic 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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Which would be best to add to a video about recycling?

    • narration that explains each step
    • a different topic
    • silence

  2. Question 2

    Which is a mode of communication?

    • a comma
    • spelling
    • sound

  3. Question 3

    Spacing between words and lines helps readers because…

    • it keeps text from running together
    • it uses more paper
    • it hides errors

  4. Question 4

    For a message to a younger class, you should…

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

  5. Question 5

    What is a caption?

    • a kind of font
    • a page number
    • words that explain a picture

  6. Question 6

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

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

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