CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5

ELAGrades K–12Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

The Standard

Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening

What This Standard Means

Students need to choose visuals, audio, video, slides, charts, or other media that help an audience understand a message. They should not add decorations for show. They need to match the tool to the purpose, explain data clearly, and keep the focus on the main idea.

Mastery looks like a presentation where each visual makes the point easier to follow. Students can explain why they used it. Common trouble spots are crowded slides, tiny text, random pictures, too many effects, reading every word aloud, and charts that are not labeled well.

Ways to Teach It

Give students a messy slide deck and have them revise three slides using fewer words, clear labels, and one useful image or chart.
Ask students to write, Which visual would best help your audience understand your point, and why?
Have students show one slide and answer, What does this add that your spoken words do not?
Show a weather forecast graphic, a bus schedule, or a sports chart, then discuss how the visual helps people make decisions.

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