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 25 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: ten photos of the speaker's vacation, flashing text on every slide, a table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep, a recording of a weaver's memories in a talk on the mill
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
2.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a map of canal routes in a talk on canals, a joke video unrelated to the topic, 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
3.Sort each one: Develops the main idea or Distracts from it?
Sort: a cartoon cat in a talk on vaccines, a labeled loom diagram in a talk on weaving, loud music under every slide, a bar chart of jobs lost in a talk on closures
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
LessonPrint · SL.5.5 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Multimedia in a Presentation
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. a recording of a weaver's memories in a talk on the mill — Develops the main idea 2. a table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep — Develops the main idea 3. flashing text on every slide — Distracts from it 4. ten photos of the speaker's vacation — Distracts from it
2.1. a chart with no labels or title — Distracts from it 2. a joke video unrelated to the topic — Distracts from it 3. a map of canal routes in a talk on canals — Develops the main idea 4. a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life — Develops the main idea
3.1. 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 labeled loom diagram in a talk on weaving — Develops the main idea 4. loud music under every slide — Distracts from it
More practice for SL.5.5
Use graphics and sound in a presentation where they strengthen the idea.
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