LA 8.1.6.a
Description:
Analyze the meaning, reliability, and validity of text considering author's purpose and perspective.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
1A
Exemplars
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
Description:
Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
H-1
H-1
Grade level: 8
Word count: 1899 words
Author: Tamara Ellis Smith
Synopsis: A boy and his father fight the waves and wind to escape an epic storm.
Excerpt:
Zavion turned his head and saw his house, or what was remaining of his house, which now appeared as a receding, tattered box in the distance. Damaged beams gave the impression of legs buckled at the knees. Then more tiles flew off the collapsing roof, like seagulls crashing into waves to snatch their dinner.
Zavion decided to grab two shattered shingles as they drifted by.
Zavion decided to grab two shattered shingles as they drifted by.
Question:
What does Zavion grab from his house as he departs?
- shingles from the roof
- one of his dad's paintings
- a box of juice
- a roll of canvas
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe a selection you have read that has an untrustworthy narrator and explain how you know the narrator is untrustworthy.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions