4.6.C

Description: Make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 3A, 3A

Exemplars

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-44

D-44

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1532 words
Author: Deirdre Bligh
Synopsis: The Great Wall of China has protected the people and culture of China for many hundreds of years.
Excerpt: Today, the Great Wall of China is a very popular place for tourists. Thousands of people, both from within China and from other countries, come to the wall every day. But some of these people leave graffiti on the wall. Some take bricks so they can bring a piece of the wall home with them. This has caused a lot of damage to certain places along the wall.

Question: If the current government of China does not protect the wall, what will most likely happen?
  1. The wall will continue to be damaged by tourists and others.
  2. China will lose all its connections to the rest of the world.
  3. Enemies will no longer use horses to attack China from the north.
  4. China will be ruled by Emperor Qin.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Tell about two clues in the selection that helped you figure out the ending.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-49

D-49

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1474 words
Author: Janet S. Anderson
Synopsis: Dragons are happy when they are well-fed. But when they become hungry, watch out!
Excerpt: However, waiting for meals could sometimes make dragons upset, then angry, and then dangerous. They were usually sorry, afterwards. But by then the damage had been done.

Even worse, feeling sorry made them cry, which flooded what was left of the house with boiling, bubbling tears. Thus, in every house, it was the calmest, most responsible, most trustworthy child who took care of the dragon.

Question: What would have happened if Holly and Kyle did not find the Seeds?
  1. The dragons would not have their favorite food, which would make them hungry and dangerous.
  2. The dragons would hum happily when they saw Holly and Kyle.
  3. The dragons would move to the Abbey because it was safer there.
  4. The dragons would not want to eat cherries, but they would want to eat locusts.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Tell about two clues in the selection that helped you figure out the ending.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions