LA 4.1.6.o

Description: Demonstrate an understanding of text via multiple mediums (e.g., writing, artistic representation, video, other media).
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 4C, 4C

Exemplars

4C: Visualizing

4C: Visualizing

Description: Visualizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-11

D-11

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1499 words
Author: Misha Berman
Synopsis: Monsters have been around as long as people. Which monsters are real, and which did we dream up?
Excerpt: In maps from the 1500s and 1600s, the ocean is full of sea monsters. Some of them look a bit like a whale, except with a nose like a beak and enormous sharp teeth. Others have a snout like a pig or a body like a huge snake. None of them look the least bit like someone you would want to meet.

Question: Many maps from the 1600s showed pictures of sea monsters in the ocean. The selection says some of these sea monsters looked like
  1. whales with sharp teeth.
  2. mermaids with sharp claws.
  3. roaring lions with web feet.
  4. dragons with two heads.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Draw a picture of something that happened in a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

4C: Visualizing

4C: Visualizing

Description: Visualizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-25

D-25

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1511 words
Author: John R. Corvell
Synopsis: Now come on. There's no such thing as a bird the size of an elephant. Is there?
Excerpt: It looked like a large, round, white stone lying near some thick brush. I decided to take a closer look, so I walked over. I give you my word, this is the truth! It was a huge egg, as big as a bucket!

Question: Pierre described the egg as being the same size as a
  1. bucket.
  2. cup.
  3. coconut.
  4. person's head.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Draw a picture of something that happened in a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions