LA 1.1.6.e
Description:
Retell main ideas and supporting details from informational text and/or media.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
2B, 2C
Exemplars
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