5.6.B

Description: Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A

Exemplars

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

Description: Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker

SeeReader
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Selection: HiE-2

HiE-2

Grade level: 5
Word count: 1606 words
Author: Randi Bender
Synopsis: When will an earthquake strike? We really don't know. But we do know why they happen.
Excerpt: Earthquakes are measured using the Richter Scale. This is a system that assigns a number based on how much power an earthquake has. Special instruments measure the energy in an earthquake, which is then assigned a number on the scale.

Question: The Richter Scale measures
  1. the energy of an earthquake.
  2. the level of noise created by an earthquake.
  3. the size of the sea waves in earthquakes that happen under water.
  4. the location of an earthquake.

Writing
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Writing prompt: Create a diagram that lists the following information about a selection: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions