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Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 16 of 18

Posters & Presentations

Design choices and how to organize a talk

What your child practises

Children think about layout, visuals and sound that support a message, and how to organize a presentation with an introduction, body and conclusion.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Production · multimodal forms and final copies, visual and audio aids, layout and design choices, and organizing a presentation

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

    Which colour combination is hardest to read?

    • black text on white
    • white text on dark blue
    • navy text on yellow
    • light yellow text on a white background

  2. Question 2

    Which visual aid best shows how the population of a town changed over 20 years?

    • a poem
    • a photo of a mountain
    • a line graph
    • a cartoon

  3. Question 3

    When choosing music for a digital story, you should consider…

    • the mood and purpose of your story
    • any random track
    • only your favourite song
    • the loudest track

  4. Question 4

    Which question is a good way to start a presentation about sleep?

    • Did you know that students need about nine hours of sleep?
    • Sleep.
    • Okay, uh.
    • The end.

  5. Question 5

    Good contrast between text and background means…

    • the text matches the background
    • the text is hidden
    • the background is blank
    • the text is easy to read against the background

  6. Question 6

    Which layout choice makes a poster easier to read?

    • leaving white space between sections
    • overlapping pictures and words
    • filling every inch with text
    • using five fonts

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