NY Next Generation ELA 2SL5
The Standard
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify or support ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students include digital media or visual displays that clarify or support their ideas, thoughts, and feelings. The media has a clear communication purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student chooses an image, simple slide, recording, or display that adds useful information. The student explains how it supports the presentation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose a favorite image unrelated to the message. They may show media without referring to it.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to add one picture or simple digital element to a brief talk and explain how it clarifies an idea or feeling.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Match presentation ideas with pictures or simple displays that clarify them.
Ask students what a visual adds that words alone do not.
Play Helpful Visual Sort with relevant and distracting examples.
Create one picture or slide for a class sharing presentation.
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Related Standards
- 6SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify information and emphasize and enhance central ideas or themes.
- 5SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to emphasize and enhance central ideas or themes.
- 4SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to emphasize central ideas or themes.
- 7SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.
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