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3rd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 18 of 21

Posters, Slides & Media

Share ideas with words, pictures, sound and design.

What your child practices

Practices multimodal texts (posters, slide shows, videos, photo essays), planning a layout, choosing visuals and fonts, and picking the best way to share a message with an audience.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 3SL5 · choosing words, pictures and layout for posters and talks

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A multimodal text uses more than one way to share a message, like words with pictures or sound.
  2. Plan the layout so the most important part stands out.
  3. Choose fonts and colors that are easy to read, like dark words on a light page.

Example: Which is a multimodal text: a poster with words and pictures, or a page of words only? Multi means many. The poster uses two ways: words and pictures. Answer: a poster with words and pictures

Posters, Slides & Media in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 18 of 21 in 3rd grade English Language Arts, after Listening & Talking Together and before Kinds of Texts.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    Font color that is hard to read on the background is a…

    • required
    • bad choice
    • good choice

  2. Question 2

    Which would be the best visual aid for a talk on the water cycle?

    • A blank sheet
    • A labeled diagram
    • A random photo

  3. Question 3

    A slide show with narration uses…

    • only a pencil
    • no sound or images
    • pictures and a spoken voice

  4. Question 4

    A photo essay tells ideas with…

    • photos and short words
    • an empty page
    • only numbers

  5. Question 5

    A graphic organizer on a computer can help you…

    • lose your work
    • put ideas in order before you write
    • erase your name

  6. Question 6

    A video can show something a book cannot easily show, like…

    • silence only
    • nothing
    • movement and sound

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