South Dakota ELA 6.SL.5

ELA6th GradeSpeaking & Listening

The Standard

Include relevant multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students choose pictures, charts, audio, or video that help explain a point in a presentation. They show each one at the right moment and tell the audience what to notice.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student uses a labeled chart to make a number easier to understand. They explain the chart without reading every word on the screen.
Common Misconceptions: Students may pick images because they look good, even when they do not explain anything. They may crowd a slide with text or play a video without saying what the audience should learn from it.
How to Assess It: Ask students to give a 30-second explanation of how to sort classroom recycling using one labeled sketch. Listen for a sentence that explains what the sketch makes clearer.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a short weather report and blank paper; have them draw a labeled map that makes one forecast detail clear.
Show a rainfall chart and an unrelated rain photo; ask students to write which would better support a rainfall report and why.
Play Keep or Cut with a talk on lunch waste: students choose between a trash photo, a labeled bar graph, and a mascot.
For a school book drive announcement, have students show labeled photos of books to donate and damaged books, then explain the difference.

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