Using media to support oral presentations helps Grade 8 ELA students make purposeful choices about visuals, graphics, and audio. This oral communication resource focuses on selecting media that supports a speaker's message without simply repeating the same information.

Make Media Support the Message

Students examine how visuals, graphics, and audio can strengthen an oral presentation when used strategically. They evaluate whether a caption, label, or chart accurately matches what a speaker says and consider how media can help an audience follow important information.

Evaluate and Choose Presentation Media

The lesson develops practical skills for choosing media that helps an audience track key terms, timelines, and data summaries. Students apply criteria to determine whether a media element contributes useful information and supports the spoken message rather than duplicating it.

Varied Practice for Oral Communication

Students work with multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay task, and a “Did You Know?” section. These activities give students opportunities to identify, evaluate, and apply principles for using media during oral presentations.

What Is Included

• Student worksheet focused on using media to support oral presentations
• Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement
• Separate Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

Classroom Application

Use this Grade 8 ELA worksheet for direct instruction, guided practice, independent work, or review within an oral communication lesson. The student supplement provides lesson support, while the Teacher Guide gives educators practical guidance for teaching the topic, facilitating discussion, and addressing common mistakes.

Build Purposeful Presentation Skills

This resource focuses students on an important aspect of oral communication: choosing media because it helps the audience follow and interpret a message. By working with visuals, graphics, audio, captions, labels, charts, timelines, key terms, and data summaries, students practise evaluating how presentation elements relate to spoken information. The resource is designed for Grade 8 ELA within the Ontario framework.