6R9
Description:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Use established criteria in order to evaluate the quality of texts. Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, and personal experiences.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
4C, 9A
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
9A: Comparing/Contrasting
9A: Comparing/Contrasting
Description:
Compare, Contrast, and/or Integrate
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-43
F-43
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1518 words
Author: Deirdre Bligh
Synopsis: Eclipses are rare events. From ancient times to the present, they have fascinated people around the globe.
Excerpt:
The people of ancient China thought an eclipse was a dragon eating the sun. In fact, the ancient Chinese word for eclipse means, "to eat." They also thought this same dragon attacked the moon during a lunar eclipse.
The people of Korea had a myth about eclipses. In this myth, a king ordered two fire dogs to capture the sun or the moon. Each time they took a bite out of the sun or moon, an eclipse took place.
The ancient Vikings of northern Europe thought an eclipse happened when a pair of sky wolves took a bite out of the sun or moon. And the people of Vietnam once believed a similar story, but in their myth a frog or toad ate the moon.
The people of Korea had a myth about eclipses. In this myth, a king ordered two fire dogs to capture the sun or the moon. Each time they took a bite out of the sun or moon, an eclipse took place.
The ancient Vikings of northern Europe thought an eclipse happened when a pair of sky wolves took a bite out of the sun or moon. And the people of Vietnam once believed a similar story, but in their myth a frog or toad ate the moon.
Question:
Ancient civilizations created stories to explain what happened to the sun during an eclipse. A common theme among these stories is
- an animal ate the sun.
- the sun grows stronger.
- humans ran away from the sun.
- a god scared away the sun.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe how the world today compares and contrasts with the setting of a selection that takes place in the past. Include at least three examples.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions