Grade 6 · English Language Arts · Unit 8 of 15
Media, Bias & Diversity
Notice how texts show people, and how words, pictures and sound work together.
What your child practises
Practises how multimodal texts combine modes, how audience and purpose shape a text, and how to notice bias, stereotypes, inclusion and equity in texts.
Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.6.B3.1, ELA.6.B3.4, ELA.6.C1.5, ELA.6.C3.5 · diversity and bias in texts, and creating multimodal texts
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Prejudice is…
- a long word
- judging people unfairly without knowing them
- a kind of punctuation
judging people unfairly without knowing them
Hint: It is an unfair opinion formed in advance.
Question 2
Which choice makes a slideshow easier to understand?
- Short text and a clear picture on each slide
- A different font on every line
- A whole page of tiny text
Short text and a clear picture on each slide
Hint: Keep slides simple.
Question 3
A multimodal text combines…
- only one font
- only silence
- two or more ways of communicating, such as words and pictures
two or more ways of communicating, such as words and pictures
Hint: Modes include text, images, sound and video.
Question 4
Which is a multimodal text?
- A blank page
- A list of words
- A video with narration and captions
A video with narration and captions
Hint: It uses sound, pictures and words.
Question 5
Bias in a text means…
- it shows only one side or unfairly favours a view
- it has too many pictures
- it is long
it shows only one side or unfairly favours a view
Hint: Biased texts are not balanced.
Question 6
A story shows only boys as scientists. What might a thoughtful reader notice?
- It uses too many verbs
- It has a long title
- It leaves out girls and others who are scientists
It leaves out girls and others who are scientists
Hint: Representation matters.