RI.1.2
Description:
Determine central ideas (RI) or themes (RL) of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
2A, 2B, 2C, 8B
Exemplars
2A: Determining Main Idea
2A: Determining Main Idea
Description:
Determining Main Idea and Themes
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-82
A-82
Grade level: 1
Word count: 537 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: What is a friendship? These two girls experience it every day.
Excerpt:
No excerpt is available for this question.
Question:
This selection is mainly about
- a friendship.
- a trip in an airplane.
- two cats.
- talking too much.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Use a story map to show the main idea and its supporting details in a selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
2B: Analyzing Relative Importance
2B: Analyzing Relative Importance
Description:
Determining Relative Importance
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-9
A-9
Grade level: 1
Word count: 711 words
Author: Jan Kraus
Synopsis: Cake can be made from a mix or you can make it from scratch. Either way, it will taste a lot sweeter than the cakes people ate long ago.
Excerpt:
Today, many people are very busy. They do not have a lot of time to bake. A mix lets them bake a cake in very little time. In this way, a cake mix is helpful.
Question:
According to this selection, a cake mix is helpful because it
- saves time.
- costs a lot of money.
- has a lot of salt.
- needs a lot of work.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe two important details that support the main idea of a selection and two other details that are not important to the main idea.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
2C: Summarizing
2C: Summarizing
Description:
Summarizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-13
A-13
Grade level: 1
Word count: 662 words
Author: Jan Mader
Synopsis: The wind is an invisible superpower.
Excerpt:
Take a deep breath. Blow it out. What do you feel? That's air that has become wind. Wind is air that moves.
Question:
According to this selection, what is the definition of wind?
- air that moves
- warm air
- cold air
- air people can see
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
List four important facts you learned from an Non-fiction selection a write a summary of those facts.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
8B: Reasoning
8B: Reasoning
Description:
Reasoning
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-48
A-48
Grade level: 1
Word count: 738 words
Author: Tracey Baptiste
Synopsis: Handball has been around since ancient times, yet many people have never played it.
Excerpt:
Handball is a good sport to play in a city. Why? You need a lot of space to play football. The same is true for baseball. But handball does not need a lot of space. You can play a game of handball against a wall.
Question:
This selection says handball is a good sport to play in a city. Which of the following sentences explains why this is true?
- A city is too crowded to have large open spaces to play sports like baseball or football.
- People who live in cities do not like playing any sports.
- A city does not have any walls.
- People who live in cities do not have any time to play sports.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
How is the life of a character in a selection similar to (or different from) your own life?
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions