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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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 5.1.5.3; 5.3.3.2 · how words, images and sound work together, and choosing digital tools

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    When writing by hand, legible means…

    • easy to read
    • very small
    • very fast

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

    Which digital tool is made for writing and editing text?

    • a calculator
    • a word processor
    • a thermometer

  5. Question 5

    Which font choice is best for a long paragraph?

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

  6. Question 6

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

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

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