South Dakota ELA 7.SL.5

ELA7th GradeSpeaking & Listening

The Standard

Include relevant multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students choose a chart, image, or short clip that helps an audience understand a point in their presentation. They tell the audience what to notice instead of leaving the visual to speak for itself.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can turn survey results into a labeled chart and show it while explaining a related claim. The chart makes the key result clear without crowding the slide.
Common Misconceptions: Students may fill a slide with text and read it aloud, or add a picture that has little to do with their point. They may show a chart without explaining which result matters.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: The lunch line takes 15 minutes at noon and 4 minutes at 1 p.m. Sketch one slide to support a claim about the noon line, then write what you would say while showing it.

Lesson moves

Give pairs cafeteria wait times of 4, 9, and 15 minutes, graph paper, and markers; have them draw and label a chart.
Show a crowded text slide and a slide with one labeled chart; ask which helps them follow the speaker's point, and why.
Play Slide Swap with a recycling totals chart, a bin photo, and a trash cartoon; teams pick one to support a recycling claim.
Ask students to pitch a new school bike rack to the principal using a photo of crowded racks and a count of parked bikes.

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