AS.R.2

Description: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2A, 2A, 2C, 2C, 3A

Exemplars

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-82

A-82

Grade level: 1
Word count: 537 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: What is a friendship? These two girls experience it every day.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: This selection is mainly about
  1. a friendship.
  2. a trip in an airplane.
  3. two cats.
  4. talking too much.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Use a story map to show the main idea and its supporting details in a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

Description: Summarizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-13

A-13

Grade level: 1
Word count: 662 words
Author: Jan Mader
Synopsis: The wind is an invisible superpower.
Excerpt: Take a deep breath. Blow it out. What do you feel? That's air that has become wind. Wind is air that moves.

Question: According to this selection, what is the definition of wind?
  1. air that moves
  2. warm air
  3. cold air
  4. air people can see

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: List four important facts you learned from an Non-fiction selection a write a summary of those facts.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-19

A-19

Grade level: 1
Word count: 785 words
Author: Frederick H. Martens
Synopsis: The king's daughter is saved from the bird with nine heads by a young man named Will. Can they live happily ever after?
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: This selection is mainly about a
  1. man who saves the king's daughter.
  2. dragon that is friendly and kind.
  3. king who does not keep his promise.
  4. friend who is not very nice.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Use a story map to show the main idea and its supporting details in a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

Description: Summarizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-22

A-22

Grade level: 1
Word count: 811 words
Author: Adapted from a story by A. L. Sykes.
Synopsis: A little rabbit finds out that it is important to follow rules.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: What is the main lesson of this selection?
  1. Follow the rules.
  2. Make your own rules.
  3. Try your hardest.
  4. Go out at night.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Using no more than 20 words, write a summary of a narrative selection you read. For example, if you read The Three Bears, you would write: bears come home, find broken chairs, see missing porridge, discover sleeping girl.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-25

A-25

Grade level: 1
Word count: 811 words
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Synopsis: A poor man and his wife ask for a little too much from a magic fish.
Excerpt: "Go home," said the fish, "for she has it already."

The man returned home. There was his wife, sitting outside a stone castle. She took him into the great hall. There were many servants moving about. She showed him the fine chairs and tables. She showed him the rich foods. He looked out the tall windows. He saw gardens filled with beautiful flowers. He saw stables filled with strong horses.

"Is this not much better than before!" she said.

"Yes," said the man. "Now you can be happy for years to come."

"We'll see about that," said the wife. "Let us sleep on it." With that, they went to bed.

Question: Read the following excerpt. What does the wife mean when she says, "We'll see about that?"
  1. The wife will keep asking for more things.
  2. The wife is happy with all the things she has.
  3. The husband and wife will look for more magic fish.
  4. The husband will move to another castle.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write an email to a friend who has not read the selection. Provide enough information about the selection's characters, settings, and events so your friend is able to predict what happened in the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions