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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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Writing 2; Speaking and Listening 3 · 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine 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 color choice is easiest to read?

    • dark text on a light background
    • light gray on white
    • yellow text on white

  2. Question 2

    Which digital tool is made for writing and editing text?

    • a calculator
    • a word processor
    • a thermometer

  3. Question 3

    Which font choice is best for a long paragraph?

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

  4. Question 4

    Spacing between words and lines helps readers because…

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

  5. Question 5

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

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

  6. Question 6

    Which combination best informs people about a local park?

    • a blank page
    • a long list of words
    • a map, a short description and a photo

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