3.6.D
Description:
Create mental images to deepen understanding.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
4B, 4B, 4C, 4C
Exemplars
4B: Interpreting Analogies
4B: Interpreting Analogies
Description:
Interpreting Analogies
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
C-27
C-27
Grade level: 3
Word count: 1335 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: The resources available to Native Americans often played an important role in the kinds of shelters they built.
Excerpt:
Some Native Americans in the far north used snow in an unusual way. They used snow to keep their dwellings warm. How did they do this? First, the dwellings were built from whale bones and animal skins. Then the Native Americans would pile snow around the outside of the dwelling. This snow acted like a blanket. The piles of snow helped to keep heat inside the dwelling.
Question:
The author of this selection compares the snow piled around a Native American dwelling in the far north to a
- blanket, because the snow keeps the dwelling warm.
- blanket, because the snow is colorful and soft.
- tent, because the snow was easy to set up.
- tent, because the snow was easy to carry around.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
List five words in a selection that helped you form a picture in your mind. Do additional research to find a synonym and antonym for each word, and use the word in a sentence.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
C-19
C-19
Grade level: 3
Word count: 1118 words
Author: Manny Ruiz
Synopsis: People once made up stories to explain the world around them.
Excerpt:
No excerpt is available for this question.
Question:
Ancient people described the king of the gods as
- being bigger and stronger than the other gods.
- looking as if he was a large, scary monster.
- seeming to be as large as a mountain.
- having a body that looked like the planet Jupiter.
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
4B: Interpreting Analogies
4B: Interpreting Analogies
Description:
Interpreting Analogies
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
C-24
C-24
Grade level: 3
Word count: 1323 words
Author: Michael H. Levitt
Synopsis: Was the stranger telling the truth? Did he even EXIST?
Excerpt:
The darkness seemed to close around me like a big, black glove. I thought, "I'm sure glad I'm not outside this evening. I had better make sure the light is working, because this would be the worst time for it to fail."
Question:
What does the boy mean when he says, "The darkness seemed to close around me like a big, black glove"?
- It was so dark that the boy could not see anything.
- The boy thought he could touch the darkness with his hand.
- The darkness warmed the boy's hands.
- The darkness made the boy feel safe and happy.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
List five words in a selection that helped you form a picture in your mind. Do additional research to find a synonym and antonym for each word, and use the word in a sentence.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
C-24
C-24
Grade level: 3
Word count: 1323 words
Author: Michael H. Levitt
Synopsis: Was the stranger telling the truth? Did he even EXIST?
Excerpt:
"Well," he said, "the old lighthouse had been here for many years. It was not as big as this one. It did not have electrical equipment. The light was from a fire that the lighthouse keeper had to tend. The light wasn't as strong as it is today, so boats at a great distance couldn't see it. But the signal never failed to warn boats away from the rocks."
Question:
The old sailor said that the old lighthouse differed from the new lighthouse in which two of the following ways?
- The old lighthouse was smaller.
- The old lighthouse needed a fire to create light.
- The old lighthouse was taller.
- The old lighthouse was damaged by a boat that crashed into it.
- The old lighthouse had a more powerful light that could be seen from great distances.
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