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 24 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 table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep, flashing text on every slide, a chart with no labels or title, a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
2.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a timeline of frosts in a talk on the frozen Thames, a cartoon cat in a talk on vaccines, a video clip that uses up half the time, an animation of antibodies in a talk on vaccines
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
3.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a song playing while the speaker talks, a bar chart of jobs lost in a talk on closures, a labeled loom diagram in a talk on weaving, a map of the wrong country
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
LessonPrint · SL.5.5 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Multimedia in a Presentation
Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. a chart with no labels or title — Distracts from it 2. a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life — Develops the main idea 3. a table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep — Develops the main idea 4. flashing text on every slide — Distracts from it
2.1. a cartoon cat in a talk on vaccines — Distracts from it 2. a timeline of frosts in a talk on the frozen Thames — Develops the main idea 3. a video clip that uses up half the time — Distracts from it 4. an animation of antibodies in a talk on vaccines — Develops the main idea
3.1. a bar chart of jobs lost in a talk on closures — Develops the main idea 2. a labeled loom diagram in a talk on weaving — Develops the main idea 3. a map of the wrong country — Distracts from it 4. a song playing while the speaker talks — Distracts from it
More practice for SL.5.5
Use graphics and sound in a presentation where they strengthen the idea.
Teaching this next? Multimedia in a Presentation is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.