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5th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 13

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 5.9(F); 5.11(A) · 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 9 of 13 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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?

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

  2. Question 2

    Why choose a large, clear font for a poster?

    • to hide mistakes
    • to use more ink
    • so it can be read from far away

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

    Which color choice is easiest to read?

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

  5. Question 5

    What is a caption?

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

  6. Question 6

    Which choice shows thinking about the audience?

    • using a bigger font for a grandparent who has trouble seeing small print
    • using a tiny font
    • using no words

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