RL.MC.5.1
Description:
Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
Ask and answer inferential questions to analyze meaning beyond the text; refer to details and examples within a text to support inferences and conclusions.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
3C
Exemplars
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect
Description:
Analyzing Cause and Effect
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
D-46
D-46
Grade level: 4
Word count: 1320 words
Author: Anonymous
Synopsis: Ancient people made up stories to explain how and why animals came to be. This tale tells how spiders first appeared.
Excerpt:
And that is how the spider came to be. Arachne and her children have worked ever since that day. The great weaving goddess made it so that spiders can weave their silk into the best material in the land. But she also made it so that spiders are unable to speak.
That is why spiders are very quiet. They use their gift without being too proud. They make their beautiful, silky material only in dark places. You have to look hard to find them. But you can see them, in the places where people do not go.
That is why spiders are very quiet. They use their gift without being too proud. They make their beautiful, silky material only in dark places. You have to look hard to find them. But you can see them, in the places where people do not go.
Question:
According to the selection, when the goddess made spiders, she did not want them to speak. Why?
- It was Arachne's proud words that made the goddess angry in the first place.
- The goddess knew that spiders weave only in places that are silent.
- Arachne's father wanted his daughter to weave more and talk less.
- The goddess thought that being able to talk would make the spiders too tired to work.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write three "why" questions about things that happened in a selection and then answer those questions.
Evaluator
Organization:
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