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.
Determine how an author uses text features and structures to shape meaning and tone.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
5A
Exemplars
5A: Examining Text Structure
5A: Examining Text Structure
Description:
Examining Text Structure
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
I-11
I-11
Grade level: 9
Word count: 1755 words
Author: Joan Novelli
Synopsis: Got a wave, a spiral, or a snowflake? There's a mathematical equation for that!
Excerpt:
Our planet Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an "oblate spheroid." This is because the Earth's rotation causes it to stretch out around the equator, flattening slightly at the poles like a short, fat tomato. A similar effect of rotation happens when a baker spins a ball of pizza dough into the air so it widens around the edges, eventually flattening into a disc.
Question:
Choose the sentence in this excerpt that contains the figure of speech called a simile.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Choose an informational text that presents information in a cause-and-effect or problem-and-solution manner. Describe why the organization of information did (or did not) help you understand the main idea of the selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions