RL.LCS.11.2

Description: Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of point of view, perspective, or purpose shapes content, meaning, and style Distinguish who is telling the story at various points in a text, the narrator or characters.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 5A

Exemplars

5A: Examining Text Structure

5A: Examining Text Structure

Description: Examining Text Structure

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-5

A-5

Grade level: 1
Word count: 752 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: It is Mom's birthday today. Her children know what to do to make her happy on this special day.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: A narrator is someone who tells a story. Who is the narrator of this selection?
  1. one of the children in the selection
  2. the children's friend
  3. the mother's friend
  4. a neighbor who is watching the children

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Why would an author choose to tell a story that does not follow chronological order? Use an example from a fictional story you have read to support your argument.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions