11-12.RI.2

Description: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another, and matters left uncertain, in order to provide a complex analysis. Provide an evidence-based summary of the text that includes analysis.

Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A, 2A, 2C, 5B

Exemplars

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

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Selection: K-2

Excerpt: Another distinctive anatomical feature is the horseshoe crab's ten eyes. Two are located on the underside of the crab and the rest on the shell. The tail also has an anatomical feature called photoreceptors, which are sensitive to light and dark. Even with all of this anatomical equipment, however, the horseshoe crab's vision is not very good. Yet another anatomical oddity is the crab's blood, which is blue due to its copper content. By comparison, human blood is red, because of its iron content.

Question: What are two distinctive features of the horseshoe crab's anatomy?

Its tail is sensitive to light and dark.
It has ten eyes, located on both sides of the shell.
It uses its legs like flippers to swim.
It can see its prey from a long distance away.
Its mouth has a wide jaw and strong teeth.

Writing
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Writing prompt: Create a website for a non-fiction selection you read. Include the main idea and supporting details. Include images that would help viewers of your website better understand the topic.

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2A: Determining Main Idea

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Selection: K-5

Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.

Question: What is the main idea of this selection?

Although they are a minority, left-handed people can thrive and become successful.
Left-handed people experience many inconveniences because the world is geared toward right-handed people.
The myths and superstitions about left-handed people are unsupported by evidence.
It is essential that parents and teachers help children accept their left-handedness from an early age.

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Writing prompt: Is it necessary for every selection to have a main idea? Develop an argument and use evidence from selections you have read to provide supporting evidence.

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2C: Summarizing

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Selection: K-8

Excerpt: The implications of this study are very important. Besides being essential for brain and body health, eating fat is also important for promoting feelings of happiness. Doctors now believe the connection between eating fats and being happy may account for the reason why many people on low-fat diets experience depression.

Question: Why are the implications of the Belgian study important?

The scientists found that fat is vital for a healthy brain and body as well as for a cheerful temperament.
The scientists discovered that eating fatty junk foods can lead to heart problems and other ailments.
Researchers realized that most people consume too much fat in their daily meals.
Researchers determined that people on low-fat diets tend to be happier and healthier.

Writing
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Writing prompt: Create a news report based on a selection you have read. Report facts from the selection as well as additional facts you researched from reputable sources.

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5B: Examining Sequence

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Selection: K-9

Excerpt: For nearly 100 years, a small group of aviation enthusiasts have asserted that a now-obscure German immigrant named Gustave Whitehead piloted the first heavier-than-air craft in Fairfield, Connecticut, on August 14, 1901, more than two years before the Wright brothers' venture.

The story of Gustave Whitehead and his airplane began in Germany, where he was born in 1874. Orphaned at the age of 13, he lived with relatives until becoming an apprentice to a machinist who taught him to construct engines.

In 1893, he settled in the United States, shortly translating his surname to the more English-sounding "Whitehead." His first jobs involved constructing gliders, a type of heavier-than-air plane powered only by air currents and gravity.

With its wings folded up, Number 21 could be driven like a car over regular roads; so Whitehead drove it from Bridgeport to the nearby town of Fairfield. There, he flew the plane twice, first for half a mile and then for a mile and a half, achieving of height of 50 feet.

Question: Given the claims made by Whitehead's advocates, place the following events in his life in order, starting with the earliest.

Whitehead learns to construct engines from a machinist.
Whitehead settles in America and takes a job constructing gliders.
Whitehead flies a heavier-than-air craft in Fairfield, Connecticut.
The Wright brothers fly a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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Writing prompt: Think about the selections you have read that explain how something happens or is done. Explain the process in complete detail in your own words, so that people reading your instructions are able to understand or perform the entire process successfully on their own.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

11-12.RI.2

Exemplars

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

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K-2

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2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

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K-5

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2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

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K-8

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5B: Examining Sequence

5B: Examining Sequence

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K-9

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