Multimedia in a Presentation is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on sorting multimedia choices by whether they develop the main idea, aligned to Common Core standard SL.5.5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Multimedia in a Presentation
SL.5.5
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Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a bar chart of jobs lost in a talk on closures, a song playing while the speaker talks, a cartoon cat in a talk on vaccines, a photo of two rail gauges side by side in a talk on railways
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
2.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life, a map of canal routes in a talk on canals, a map of the wrong country, ten photos of the speaker's vacation
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
3.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: an animation of antibodies in a talk on vaccines, a timeline of frosts in a talk on the frozen Thames, a joke video unrelated to the topic, a chart with no labels or title
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
LessonPrint · SL.5.5 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Multimedia in a Presentation
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. a bar chart of jobs lost in a talk on closures — Develops the main idea 2. a cartoon cat in a talk on vaccines — Distracts from it 3. a photo of two rail gauges side by side in a talk on railways — Develops the main idea 4. a song playing while the speaker talks — Distracts from it
2.1. a map of canal routes in a talk on canals — Develops the main idea 2. a map of the wrong country — Distracts from it 3. a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life — Develops the main idea 4. ten photos of the speaker's vacation — Distracts from it
3.1. a chart with no labels or title — Distracts from it 2. a joke video unrelated to the topic — Distracts from it 3. a timeline of frosts in a talk on the frozen Thames — Develops the main idea 4. an animation of antibodies in a talk on vaccines — Develops the main idea
More practice for SL.5.5
Use graphics and sound in a presentation where they strengthen the idea.
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