CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.5
The Standard
Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards
What This Standard Means
Students need to choose sound, images, charts, or slides that make a presentation clearer, not just prettier. They should connect each visual or audio piece to a main idea, explain why it belongs, and use it smoothly while speaking.
Mastery looks like a student presenting with a few well-chosen supports, such as a photo, map, graph, or short recording, and referring to them at the right time. Students often get stuck by adding too many pictures, reading every word on a slide, or picking media that does not match the point.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a short animal report and have them choose one photo, one map, and one sound clip to support three speaking points.
- Ask, “Which slide or sound helped your audience understand your main idea best, and why?” after a practice presentation.
- Use a three-box exit ticket: main idea, media used, how the media helped the listener understand.
- Show a weather forecast clip, then have students name how the map, icons, and voice support the message.
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