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 8 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 song playing while the speaker talks, a spinning logo in a talk on sleep, a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life, a table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep
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, loud music under every slide, flashing text on every slide, 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 video clip that uses up half the time, a recording of a weaver's memories in a talk on the mill, a chart with no labels or title, a photo of two rail gauges side by side in a talk on railways
Develops the main ideaDistracts from it
LessonPrint · SL.5.5 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Multimedia in a Presentation
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. a song playing while the speaker talks — Distracts from it 2. a sound clip of the mill bell in a talk on mill life — Develops the main idea 3. a spinning logo in a talk on sleep — Distracts from it 4. a table of sleep hours by age in a talk on sleep — Develops the main idea
2.1. a timeline of frosts in a talk on the frozen Thames — Develops the main idea 2. an animation of antibodies in a talk on vaccines — Develops the main idea 3. flashing text on every slide — Distracts from it 4. loud music under every slide — Distracts from it
3.1. a chart with no labels or title — Distracts from it 2. a photo of two rail gauges side by side in a talk on railways — Develops the main idea 3. a recording of a weaver's memories in a talk on the mill — Develops the main idea 4. a video clip that uses up half the time — 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.