LA 6.1.6.l
Description:
Build background knowledge and activate prior knowledge to clarify text, deepen understanding, and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections while reading complex text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
1B, 4C, 7C
Exemplars
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-26
F-26
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1548 words
Author: Cullen Murphy
Synopsis: What is a huge cookie-shaped slab of earth doing in the middle of nowhere?
Excerpt:
The "something" turned out to be a flat, right-side-up slab of earth. It was about two feet thick, with a pear-shaped crown of mowed grain and wild grass. It was ten feet long at its longest point and almost eight feet at its widest point. Its rim, Rick recalled, had a smooth wall, and it looked as if it had been cut by a giant pear-shaped cookie cutter.
Question:
The slab of earth that Rick Timm found in the middle of the wheat field
- looked like a giant pear-shaped cookie.
- appeared to be made of solid rock.
- consisted of a small patch of wild grass.
- was shaped like a large dairy cow.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe how you relate scenes you visualize from reading with real life scenes. Give examples.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
7C: Interpreting Images
7C: Interpreting Images
Description:
Intepreting Images and Maps
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-18
F-18
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1774 words
Author: Mary R. Dunn
Synopsis: There is a lot of action going on inside Earth.
Image:
Question:
How would this image have looked different 250 million years ago?
- Earth would have only one big landform.
- The continents would be tiny islands.
- There would be more than seven continents.
- Earth's surface would be covered in lava.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Choose an image from a fictional selection you have read. Use the image as inspiration to write a new nonfiction piece on the same topic.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
Description:
Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-1
F-1
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1577 words
Author: Tamara Ellis Smith
Synopsis: A new idea for sneaker soles was inspired by a household item.
Excerpt:
The first shoe fad started in the 14th century in Europe. Both men and women wore slippers with long points at the front of the shoes. These slippers were called poulaines. Over time, poulaines were created with longer and longer points until they became a hazard. The wearers tripped over the points!
Question:
Read this excerpt from the selection. This example of a shoe fad shows that
- some shoes could cause injuries.
- men had no interest in fancy footwear.
- most people wore a wide-width shoe.
- people preferred boots to slippers.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Explain how prior knowledge helped you infer information from a selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions