CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.5
The Standard
Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students select images, charts, audio, or short video clips that make a presentation easier to understand. They place each element where it supports a specific point and explain its connection.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student uses readable, accurate media that adds meaning rather than decoration. The audience can connect each visual or sound clip to the speaker’s claim, evidence, or explanation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add decorative images that do not explain the topic. They may use tiny text, crowded charts, or long clips that distract from the speaker’s point.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph about school recycling. Ask them to sketch one slide with a visual, caption, and note explaining how it clarifies one fact.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a fact sheet and printed images, then have them build a three-slide paper presentation with one purposeful visual per slide.
Show two slides about the same topic, then ask students to write which slide makes the speaker’s point clearer and why.
Play Media Match: teams pair claims with charts, photos, or audio clips, then earn points by defending each match.
Have students redesign a morning announcement with one image or sound cue that helps classmates remember the key information.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.5
Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.5
Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
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