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
  1. a friendship.
  2. a trip in an airplane.
  3. two cats.
  4. 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
  1. saves time.
  2. costs a lot of money.
  3. has a lot of salt.
  4. 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?
  1. air that moves
  2. warm air
  3. cold air
  4. 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?
  1. A city is too crowded to have large open spaces to play sports like baseball or football.
  2. People who live in cities do not like playing any sports.
  3. A city does not have any walls.
  4. 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