RI.LCS.8.1
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.
Analyze how the author uses words and phrases to shape and clarify meaning.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
4C, 6C
Exemplars
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
HiE-20
HiE-20
Grade level: 5
Word count: 1417 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: There's a festival for just about every occasion you can imagine (and some you can't).
Excerpt:
Every December in Oaxaca, Spain, there's the Night of the Radishes, which features animals, dancers, kings, and just about everything else you can think of, all carved from the small red vegetable. Before the event, each radish artist will spend three days at work on the vegetables, and all the vegetable art will compete for the top prize.
Question:
Based on this excerpt, which of the following best describes the Night of the Radishes festival?
- creative and artistic
- loud and energetic
- chaotic and exhausting
- serious and intense
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
List words and phrases in a selection that helped you form a picture of a place, object, or event in a selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone
6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone
Description:
Recognizing Mood and Tone
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
HiE-8
HiE-8
Grade level: 5
Word count: 1459 words
Author: Catherine Ferguson
Synopsis: Mae Jemison, an African American woman born in a time of segregation, accomplished some amazing things.
Excerpt:
Dr. Mae Jemison is an African American woman who was born during a time of segregation. However, she never let that hold her back from having very high goals. Dr. Jemison excelled at everything she set out to do. She became a doctor, a scientist, a businesswoman, and an astronaut. She not only reached for the stars, but also got to visit them.
Question:
By the end, what is the overall tone, or "feeling," of this selection?
- confident
- unsure
- dreamy
- bossy
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
What words does an author use to create an excited or adventurous mood? Use details from a selection you have read to support and explain your answer.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions