4.3.R.3.b

Description: Students will describe key literary elements: plot
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 8B

Exemplars

8B: Reasoning

8B: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-23

D-23

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1390 words
Author: Henry Johnstone
Synopsis: His fate rests in her hands. Will she dare to do the right thing?
Excerpt: When they hunt, they use something that strikes from a long way off. Suddenly I saw a white puff, like a tiny cloud. There was a strange, sharp noise.

Question: The strange, sharp noise Keneu's mother heard was made by
  1. a gun.
  2. a rocket.
  3. a drum.
  4. thunder.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: What makes people or characters do the things they do? Use details from a selection you have read, as well as your reasoning skills, to support your answer.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions