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RI.LCS.8.2

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. Apply knowledge of text features to gain meaning; describe the relationship between these features and the text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1B, 7C

Exemplars

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

Description: Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-16

D-16

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1550 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: What might surprise you about someone you already know?
Excerpt: At the time, Sam's parents were young. They knew they needed to escape the violence and hardship in their village. They heard there were jobs in America, so they saved their money until they could afford to travel there on a small passenger ship.

Question: Sam's parents decided to leave their village. What is the main reason they left?
  1. to escape from violence
  2. to explore America
  3. to find new jobs
  4. to get a good education

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Did the title of this selection provide you with clues about the selection's main idea? Why or why not?

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

7C: Interpreting Images

7C: Interpreting Images

Description: Intepreting Images and Maps

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-21

D-21

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1291 words
Author: Karolyn Kingman
Synopsis: A little housefly can make big trouble.
Image:
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Question: Look at this image. Based on what you read in the selection, why is this a risk to humans?
  1. The housefly can spread dangerous germs onto the food that people eat.
  2. The housefly is eating all the corn crops in the world, leaving very little corn for people.
  3. The housefly can lay its eggs only on corn plants.
  4. The housefly is very tiny, and people may not see the fly on food before they take a bite.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Choose an image from an non-fiction selection you have read. Create a list of all the information visible in the image that supports the facts presented in the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions