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RL.3.NM.3A

Description: Key Ideas and Details ask and answer questions and make predictions to demonstrate understanding of a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1B, 3C

Exemplars

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

Description: Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text

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✓ standard met

Selection: C-48

C-48

Grade level: 3
Word count: 1339 words
Author: Charles Reade
Synopsis: Is there a hidden treasure on an old man's farm? The old man searches even while his neighbors laugh and his wife doubts him.
Excerpt: "What difference does it make if I cut all the roots?" the old man shouted. "These old trees aren't worth a penny a piece. They are all in such poor condition! All together the do not give us enough good apples to make a living. These trees will make us into beggars! During my father's time, these trees used to produce wagon loads of the very finest fruit. How I wish these trees were all dead!"

Summer passed. Autumn followed. The old man's old trees had more apples than they had ever had before. In fact, the branches of the old trees staggered under their weight of fruit. The old man and his wife sold the apples and made more money than they could ever use.

Question: Which character changes the most, and in what way does the character change?
  1. The old man changes the most because at first he thinks the trees are worthless, but then he learns they are the treasure.
  2. The wife changes the most because at first she is looking for the treasure, but then she doubts that it really exists.
  3. The neighbors change the most because at first they help the old man dig holes, but then they start to laugh at him.
  4. The stranger changes the most because at first he makes a lot of noise, but later he sneaks away from the old man.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Did the title of this selection provide you with clues about the selection's main idea? Why or why not?

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

Description: Analyzing Cause and Effect

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✓ standard met

Selection: C-30

C-30

Grade level: 3
Word count: 1325 words
Author: Nancy Joline
Synopsis: Who is that mysterious stranger?
Excerpt: "We may as well anchor here," I told Emily. "We can't row in the dark. We'll just sit here in the boat and wait for our parents to find us."

Question: Why did Emily and Tarij stop rowing and wait in the boat?
  1. It was too dark to see where they were going.
  2. They heard their parents coming.
  3. They thought the boat's motor would start working.
  4. It was late and they wanted to go to sleep.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write three "why" questions about things that happened in a selection and then answer those questions.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions