CurriculumGrade 9English Language Arts

Digital Media in Presentations

Aligned to SL.9-10.5 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

What this lesson teaches

Use images, audio, or data displays strategically in a presentation to deepen understanding and hold interest — not to decorate.

Worked example

Explaining traffic growth, a presenter shows a single animated graph rising year by year instead of reading numbers aloud, making the trend instantly clear.

Practice questions

  1. Choose one visual or audio element that would clarify a specific point.
  2. Explain how a graphic can replace a paragraph of spoken data.
  3. Describe when a slide adds nothing and should be cut.

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Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.

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Medios digitales en las presentaciones

Usa imágenes, audio o visualizaciones de datos de forma estratégica en una presentación para profundizar la comprensión y mantener el interés, no para decorar.

Ejemplo: Al explicar el aumento del tránsito, un presentador muestra una sola gráfica animada que sube año con año en vez de leer cifras en voz alta, y así la tendencia queda clara al instante.

More Speaking & Listening lessons

Collaborative DiscussionSL.9-10.1Integrating Sources from MediaSL.9-10.2Evaluating a Speaker's ReasoningSL.9-10.3Presenting Ideas ClearlySL.9-10.4Adapting Speech to ContextSL.9-10.6

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