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Grade 5 · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 18

Create With Words, Pictures and Sound

Choose fonts, images and modes for your audience

What your child practises

Planning and polishing texts that combine words, images, sound and video, and choosing fonts, layout and tools to suit an audience and purpose.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.5.C1.5, ELA.5.C3.1, ELA.5.C3.5 · creating multimodal texts, legible and word-processed writing, and combining modes for an audience

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A thinking map, such as a web or flow chart, helps you…

    • organize ideas before drafting
    • spell
    • print

  2. Question 2

    What is a caption?

    • a page number
    • words that explain a picture
    • a kind of font

  3. Question 3

    Why choose a large, clear font for a poster?

    • to hide mistakes
    • so it can be read from far away
    • to use more ink

  4. Question 4

    A poster should have…

    • a clear title and pictures that fit the message
    • no title
    • tiny words only

  5. Question 5

    Which text mixes several modes?

    • a ruler
    • a digital story with narration and pictures
    • a list of words

  6. Question 6

    Which is the best reason to use a heading in a report?

    • to use more colours
    • it tells readers what each section is about
    • to make the page longer

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