RI.MC.6.1
Description:
Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
Retell the central idea and key details from multi-paragraph texts; summarize the text by stating the topic of each paragraph heard, read, or viewed.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
2C
Exemplars
2C: Summarizing
2C: Summarizing
Description:
Summarizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
B-5
B-5
Grade level: 2
Word count: 1000 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: The English language is full of sayings that don't mean what they say.
Excerpt:
Here's another idiom that may puzzle you: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." It means you shouldn't be sure something will happen. There's always a chance it won't happen at all.
Question:
Someone who "counts their chickens before they hatch" is
- feeling sure a certain thing will happen.
- worrying too much about small details.
- working hard but not succeeding
- trying to make people laugh.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write an email to a friend and describe a selection you read.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions