5R9
Description:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Use established criteria to categorize texts and make informed judgments about quality; make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras and personal experiences.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
3A, 9A
Exemplars
9A: Comparing/Contrasting
9A: Comparing/Contrasting
Description:
Compare, Contrast, and/or Integrate
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
E-55
E-55
Grade level: 5
Word count: 1842 words
Author: Mike Ciecierski
Synopsis: When it's time to think about a career, follow your interests. Work is more pleasant if you get to do something you enjoy.
Excerpt:
However, when she was not talking on the phone, Nick's mom always talked to him about school and careers. She wanted him to become a doctor. She said Nick had a talent for science, so a career in medicine was the right one for him. He had something else he wanted to do.
Although his mom wanted him to be a doctor, Nick thought the career he would really want was to make movies.
As he passed the coffee shop, he recognized his neighbor, a man who sat at the corner table and drew in a sketch book. Nick knew that the man was a successful artist. One time when Nick and his mom were in the coffee shop, the man talked to them about his work. He had said, "When I was young I had a real talent for art. But my father wanted me to be a bus driver, so that's what I did. After many unhappy years in that career, I decided that art was what I was supposed to do. So I corrected the mistake I made. Now I do the kind of work I love."
Although his mom wanted him to be a doctor, Nick thought the career he would really want was to make movies.
As he passed the coffee shop, he recognized his neighbor, a man who sat at the corner table and drew in a sketch book. Nick knew that the man was a successful artist. One time when Nick and his mom were in the coffee shop, the man talked to them about his work. He had said, "When I was young I had a real talent for art. But my father wanted me to be a bus driver, so that's what I did. After many unhappy years in that career, I decided that art was what I was supposed to do. So I corrected the mistake I made. Now I do the kind of work I love."
Question:
Read these two excerpts from the selection. In what way are Nick and the man in the coffee shop alike?
- They both wanted to pursue a career that was different from the one a parent suggested.
- They were both interested in making movies.
- They both followed a parent's advice and pursued careers they did not like.
- They both had a parent who was a doctor.
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
3A: Predicting Outcomes
3A: Predicting Outcomes
Description:
Predicting Outcomes
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
HiE-11
HiE-11
Grade level: 5
Word count: 1713 words
Author: Dustin Rowland
Synopsis: In some parts of the world, animals are built to survive in temperatures that humans could not bear.
Excerpt:
Because it does not mind the heat, the silver ant will actually choose the hottest time of day to search for food. In fact, the silver ant becomes active only when temperatures reach at least 115 degrees. Although they can survive for only eight to ten minutes in that heat without burning up, they choose this time for a reason.
Question:
According to the selection, if the silver ant takes longer than ten minutes to search for food, it will
- burn up and die.
- starve to death.
- freeze to death.
- change its color.
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