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LA 2.1.6.n

Description: Make predictions and inferences about a text before, during, and after reading literary, informational, digital text, and/or media.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 3A, 3A, 8B, 9A

Exemplars

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-53

B-53

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1118 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: How did Lazy the squirrel earn his nickname? Ask his neighbors.
Excerpt: "You see," she told him, "how terrible it is not to provide for your future? You must store things that are necessary so you will have them when you need them."

Lazy agreed with her. He told his mother never again would he need to be called "Lazy."

Question: Think about the end of this selection. What would most likely happen next?
  1. The squirrels in the woods would find a new name for Lazy.
  2. Lazy would stop storing food and nuts.
  3. The mother squirrel would stop storing food and nuts.
  4. All the squirrels would eat more food during the summer.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Tell about two clues in the selection that helped you figure out the ending.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

8B: Reasoning

8B: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-68

B-68

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1004 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: While walking around her house, Kayla discovers that people need to use math all the time.
Excerpt: "What are you doing, Mom?" Kayla asked.

"Hi, honey," Mom said. "I am building some shelves for my books." Mom loved to read. She had many books. Her books were piled on the floor.

Kayla looked around. She saw tools, a box of nails, and a yardstick. She knew from her math class that a yardstick is a tool to measure things. Yardsticks are three feet long.

Question: Read this part from the selection. Which sentence explains why Mom needed to build shelves?
  1. Her books were piled on the floor.
  2. She saw tools, a box of nails, and a yardstick.
  3. Mom loved to read.
  4. What are you doing, Mom?

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write three "why" questions about a selection and provide evidence from the text on how those questions should be answered.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-5

B-5

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1000 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: The English language is full of sayings that don't mean what they say.
Excerpt: Its history goes back a long way. In the 1500s, houses had roofs made of straw. Cats and dogs usually slept outside, not in the house. On a cold, rainy night, they went up to the roof. They snuggled under the straw. It was the only place where they could get warm. But wet straw can be slippery, so sometimes the cats and dogs fell off the roof. People looked out their windows and said, "Look! It's raining cats and dogs!" Today we say "it's raining cats and dogs" when it rains really hard.

Question: What might have happened if goats, rather than cats and dogs, sat on roofs in the rain?
  1. The idiom would be "it's raining goats!"
  2. It would rain even harder.
  3. People would panic when it started to rain.
  4. The idiom would be "where are the cats and dogs?"

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Use a selection you have read to finish this statement: "If only (a character) had done (this action) instead of (this action), then (make a prediction about what might have happened)." Use details from the selection to explain and support your prediction.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

9A: Comparing/Contrasting

9A: Comparing/Contrasting

Description: Compare, Contrast, and/or Integrate

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-28

B-28

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1112 words
Author: Michael H. Levitt
Synopsis: A son remembers his favorite trip to Mount Rushmore.
Excerpt: My dad took my older brother James and me camping every summer. We would pack our sleeping bags in our dad's car. We would go to all different parts of the country.

That night at camp we sat around the fire. Dad began to speak. "James, you were right when you said those men were four of our greatest presidents. But they were very good at many different things. Each of them was something other than a president."

Now I take my own kids to see the faces carved in the stone. My children look up at the huge faces in the mountain. I like to tell them the stories about the men who were great presidents. I tell them that these great men were once young children too. These great men had started as young kids with dreams, just like them.

Question: Based on what you read, in which two of the following ways are the author of this selection and his father alike?
  1. Both took their children to places to learn about history.
  2. Both believed it was important to teach their children about the presidents.
  3. Both served as president of the United States.
  4. Both helped carve Mount Rushmore.
  5. Both thought Jefferson was the greatest president.

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