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Visual and Multimedia Elements is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on analysing what a visual contributes to meaning or tone, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 18 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Visual and Multimedia Elements

RL.5.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Orpheus Looks Back

Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen. When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept. The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light. He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word. Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round. She was there. That was the last he saw of her.

  1. 1. What single image would represent this myth?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What We Kept

Stanza one: We kept the table, which was too big, and the clock, which had never gone, and a tin of buttons nobody wanted, and the habit of turning lights off. Stanza two: We gave away the good chairs. We gave away the china, all of it. We gave away the piano to a school because none of us could play. Stanza three: Ten years on, I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street. But I turn the hall light off behind me every single time, and think of her.

  1. 1. What single image would represent this poem?

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Answer key — Visual and Multimedia Elements

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  1. 1.1. Orpheus turning, with daylight ten paces ahead of him.
  2. 2.1. A hand on a hall light switch.

Questions about Visual and Multimedia Elements

What does the Visual and Multimedia Elements worksheet cover?

It practises analysing what a visual contributes to meaning or tone — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RL.5.7: Analyse what the visuals add to a graphic novel or multimedia text. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.

Which Common Core standard does Visual and Multimedia Elements practise?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 — RL.5.7, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.

What age or grade is this worksheet for?

Visual and Multimedia Elements is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RL.5.7, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.

Does Visual and Multimedia Elements come with an answer key?

Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.

How many different versions of Visual and Multimedia Elements can I print?

25 versions, of which 18 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.

Is Visual and Multimedia Elements free to print and photocopy?

Yes. Visual and Multimedia Elements, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.

Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.5.7?

Yes — “Visual and Multimedia Elements” is a 40-minute Grade 5 plan for RL.5.7, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Visual and Multimedia Elements is the practice that follows it.

More practice for RL.5.7

Analyse what the visuals add to a graphic novel or multimedia text.

Teaching this next? Visual and Multimedia Elements is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.