RI.LCS.8.1

Description: Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts. Identify how the author uses words, phrases, illustrations, and photographs to inform, explain, or describe.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 6B, 7C

Exemplars

6B: Recognizing Persuasion

6B: Recognizing Persuasion

Description: Recognizing Persuasive Devices

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-34

B-34

Grade level: 2
Word count: 931 words
Author: Jan Mader
Synopsis: Marian Anderson changed the world with her voice.
Excerpt: Anderson became more and more famous with each passing year. In 1961, she sang the national anthem at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. Two years later, President Kennedy awarded Anderson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award goes to very few people--those who have made a major contribution to the well-being, peace, or culture of the United States. No one deserved it more.

Marian Anderson died in 1993 at age 96. She always believed her voice was a gift, one that she should share with the world.

Question: An opinion is a person's judgment about something. An opinion may or may not be based on facts. In this part from the selection, which phrase is the author's opinion?
  1. "no one deserved it more"
  2. "she sang the national anthem"
  3. "the award goes to very few people"
  4. "became more and more famous"

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Give examples of selections you have read that create a mood through the setting, feelings of characters, and choice of words.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

7C: Interpreting Images

7C: Interpreting Images

Description: Intepreting Images and Maps

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-6

B-6

Grade level: 2
Word count: 787 words
Author: Susan Hughes
Synopsis: The tiger is a beautiful animal but it is in great danger. We need to help the tiger before it is too late.
Image:
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Question: Look at this image. Based on what you read, this tiger is most likely
  1. looking for something to eat in a lake.
  2. feeling scared because it is in water.
  3. swimming in a pond with many other tigers.
  4. hiding from one of its many predators.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Can an image help you understand a selection's main idea or theme? Choose two selections you read and explain how the image did or did not help you understand the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions