6.5.D
Description:
Create mental images to deepen understanding.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
4C, 4C, 7C
Exemplars
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-26
F-26
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1548 words
Author: Cullen Murphy
Synopsis: What is a huge cookie-shaped slab of earth doing in the middle of nowhere?
Excerpt:
The "something" turned out to be a flat, right-side-up slab of earth. It was about two feet thick, with a pear-shaped crown of mowed grain and wild grass. It was ten feet long at its longest point and almost eight feet at its widest point. Its rim, Rick recalled, had a smooth wall, and it looked as if it had been cut by a giant pear-shaped cookie cutter.
Question:
The slab of earth that Rick Timm found in the middle of the wheat field
- looked like a giant pear-shaped cookie.
- appeared to be made of solid rock.
- consisted of a small patch of wild grass.
- was shaped like a large dairy cow.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe how you relate scenes you visualize from reading with real life scenes. Give examples.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
7C: Interpreting Images
7C: Interpreting Images
Description:
Intepreting Images and Maps
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-18
F-18
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1774 words
Author: Mary R. Dunn
Synopsis: There is a lot of action going on inside Earth.
Image:
Question:
How would this image have looked different 250 million years ago?
- Earth would have only one big landform.
- The continents would be tiny islands.
- There would be more than seven continents.
- Earth's surface would be covered in lava.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Choose an image from a fictional selection you have read. Use the image as inspiration to write a new nonfiction piece on the same topic.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-19
F-19
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1719 words
Author: Beth Renaud
Synopsis: Disabled people gain strength and confidence from horseback riding.
Excerpt:
Riding also helps improve a disabled person's confidence. It takes courage for Sarah to get up onto a 1,000-pound animal. Telling that big animal what to do, and then having him actually do it, is really satisfying for Sarah. In just about every other aspect of her life, people are directing Sarah, helping her make decisions, and telling her what she can and can't do.
Question:
When Sarah sits up high in the saddle, what kind of expression would you see on her face?
- one of confidence and control
- one of boldness and self-importance
- one of peace and calmness
- one of shyness and caution
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Pick an event from a selection and describe how you would make it into a scene for a movie.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions