4.3.R.7
Description:
Students will ask and answer inferential questions using the text to support answers.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
3C, 3C
Exemplars
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
Description:
Analyzing Cause and Effect
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
D-12
D-12
Grade level: 4
Word count: 1340 words
Author: Allen Huse
Synopsis: A gym teacher got the ball rolling--or dribbling.
Excerpt:
No, if they ran with the ball, there'd be blocking and tackling and bruises and broken legs. How about something like a box, but raised off the ground, to throw the ball in and score points? Yeah, that was it; a raised goal would mean players needed to use ability rather than force to make points. They'd have to pass the ball to their teammates, not run with it.
Question:
Why did Naismith decide to have players throw the ball instead of carry it?
- Players would have to use skill instead of force to score points.
- The games would be longer and more exciting for fans.
- The ball was too heavy to carry from one end of the court to the other.
- Fans could see the ball more easily if it was in motion.
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
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
Description:
Analyzing Cause and Effect
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
D-46
D-46
Grade level: 4
Word count: 1320 words
Author: Anonymous
Synopsis: Ancient people made up stories to explain how and why animals came to be. This tale tells how spiders first appeared.
Excerpt:
And that is how the spider came to be. Arachne and her children have worked ever since that day. The great weaving goddess made it so that spiders can weave their silk into the best material in the land. But she also made it so that spiders are unable to speak.
That is why spiders are very quiet. They use their gift without being too proud. They make their beautiful, silky material only in dark places. You have to look hard to find them. But you can see them, in the places where people do not go.
That is why spiders are very quiet. They use their gift without being too proud. They make their beautiful, silky material only in dark places. You have to look hard to find them. But you can see them, in the places where people do not go.
Question:
According to the selection, when the goddess made spiders, she did not want them to speak. Why?
- It was Arachne's proud words that made the goddess angry in the first place.
- The goddess knew that spiders weave only in places that are silent.
- Arachne's father wanted his daughter to weave more and talk less.
- The goddess thought that being able to talk would make the spiders too tired to work.
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