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RI.MC.5.1

Description: Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations. Ask and answer literal and inferential questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use specific details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1B, 3C, 8A

Exemplars

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

Description: Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-10

B-10

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1102 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: How much do you know about the sun? Less than you think.
Excerpt: Certainly our ancestors thought our sun was super. That's why they named our entire solar system after the sun. "Sol" is the ancient Roman word for sun.

Question: Read this excerpt. What does it tell you about the people of ancient Rome?
  1. They thought the sun was powerful and important.
  2. They believed the sun was going to burn out.
  3. They thought the planets were more important than the sun.
  4. They believed people should live on the sun.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe the clues in a selection that helped you determine the selection's main idea.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

Description: Analyzing Cause and Effect

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-18

B-18

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1107 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: It would be impossible to live without plants. They are very important to our lives. From breathing to eating to brushing our teeth, we use plants throughout the day.
Excerpt: How do plants put oxygen in the air? Inside the leaves of plants are special cells. These cells are where a plant makes food for itself. As a plant makes food in its cells, it gives off this gas. The gas goes into the air.

Question: The selection states oxygen enters the air when plants
  1. make food.
  2. are cut down.
  3. make water.
  4. are eaten.

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

8A: Judging Validity

8A: Judging Validity

Description: Judge Validity

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-18

B-18

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1107 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: It would be impossible to live without plants. They are very important to our lives. From breathing to eating to brushing our teeth, we use plants throughout the day.
Excerpt: Water moves from the roots of a plant to its leaves. When the water reaches the leaves, it changes into a vapor. You cannot see this vapor but it gets into the air. That water vapor joins with other vapor in the sky. It all comes together to make a cloud. Groups of clouds come together and we get rain. The rain falls to the ground.

Question: According to this selection, which of the following is true about plants?
  1. Plants have a role in the creation of rain water.
  2. Plants are not important for the environment.
  3. Plant pieces are found in most clouds.
  4. Plants can survive if their roots are cut off.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe at least five ways you can tell if a selection is true or not true. Use examples from selections you have read to support your statements.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions