Grade 05 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.5.G
Grade 05 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.5.G
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
5th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Activities
- Identify visual and multimedia elements.
- Determine the meaning, tone, and/or beauty of a text.
- Describe the relationship between visual and multimedia elements and the story in which they appear.
- Analyze visual and multimedia elements in a text to determine how these elements influence the meaning, tone, and/or beauty of a text.
- Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning of each.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies various visual and multimedia elements used in texts. These might include: text, graphics, sound, video or animation.
- After reading, viewing, and/or experiencing a text, the student is able to identify the meaning, tone and/or beauty of the text. The meaning is the main idea and/or theme that the author shares. Tone is the general character or attitude of a piece of writing. Beauty is the visual representation of the text which might include the font, illustrations and/or text format.
- Student describes the relationship between the visual and multimedia elements and the story in which they appear. This might include where illustrations are placed, where and what font and size changes are used, or how audio is embedded.
- Student considers and analyzes how visual or multimedia elements contribute to a text’s meaning, tone, and/or beauty. Which elements are used, where they are placed, how they are used and more are all considered in how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the text.
- Student compares and contrasts two or more texts that include visual and multimedia elements and analyzes how the elements within each text contribute to the meaning, tone, and/or beauty of the text. By investigating several texts, the student starts to consider how visual and multimedia elements within the text can contribute to the meaning, tone and/or of the text. This aids in making judgments and drawing conclusions about a single text.
