RL.MC.7.1

Description: Analyze the relationship among ideas, themes, or topics in multiple media and formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities. Retell text, including beginning, middle, and end; use key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2C, 5B

Exemplars

5B: Examining Sequence

5B: Examining Sequence

Description: Examining Sequence of Ideas and Events

SeeReader
~ standard partially met

Selection: A-54

A-54

Grade level: 1
Word count: 721 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: Max learns an important -- and nutty! -- lesson about greed.
Excerpt: Max had been playing ball at the park. He was there all afternoon. Now he was hungry. He said goodbye to his friends. He got on this bike and rode home.

Question: The first thing that happens in this selection is
  1. Max rides home from the park.
  2. Ben makes a bet with Max.
  3. Mom starts to make dinner.
  4. Mom tells Max to eat dinner.

Writing
~ standard partially met

Writing prompt: Describe a selection's beginning, middle, and end.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

Description: Summarizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: A-22

A-22

Grade level: 1
Word count: 811 words
Author: Adapted from a story by A. L. Sykes.
Synopsis: A little rabbit finds out that it is important to follow rules.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: What is the main lesson of this selection?
  1. Follow the rules.
  2. Make your own rules.
  3. Try your hardest.
  4. Go out at night.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Using no more than 20 words, write a summary of a narrative selection you read. For example, if you read The Three Bears, you would write: bears come home, find broken chairs, see missing porridge, discover sleeping girl.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions