E3.4.B
Description:
Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
1B, 2B
Exemplars
2B: Analyzing Relative Importance
2B: Analyzing Relative Importance
Description:
Determining Relative Importance
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
K-4
K-4
Grade level: 11
Word count: 2496 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: A skilled snowboarder takes a big chance when he cruises the slopes in avalanche territory.
Excerpt:
Still, with all his daredevil ways, I never believed he'd risk his life in unchartered territory. As I said, he was a creature of habit and had his favorite sanctuaries. But after the initial investigation and then the exhaustive rescue operations, and still no trace of my brother, I knew the rescue team was searching in vain. Evidently, Jake had decided to test his endurance and cruise the adjacent Maroon Bowl.
Question:
What was the most important clue leading to Jake's rescue?
- the deduction of his sister that he took the challenge of the Maroon Bowl
- the Gortex jacket with the tracking reflector left behind in the locker
- the signal from Jake's cell phone before the battery went dead.
- the ski pass scanned Friday at 12:04 p. m. at the base of the Highlands
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Imagine you are an attorney cross-examining the characters in a selection. What questions would you ask them to elicit the most important details about the plot?
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
Description:
Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
K-3
K-3
Grade level: 11
Word count: 1895 words
Author: Peter Kupfer
Synopsis: Laughter is a universal human action that people in every culture understand.
Excerpt:
Whatever its origins may be, laughter seems to be a uniquely human trait. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle asserted that laughter -- not speech, conscious thought, culture, or opposable thumbs, which give us the ability to grasp objects -- is the most important trait separating human beings from wild beasts. While many animals make sounds that resemble laughter, those sounds are not an expression of mirth or merriment. Laughing hyenas, for example -- despite their name -- do not really laugh. The high-pitched sounds they emit are triggered not by something funny but because they are excited or on the prowl.
Question:
Choose the sentence in this excerpt that best explains Aristotle's assertion that laughter separates man from beast.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write a question about one additional fact you would have liked to learn from a selection you read. Answer the question by using the Internet or other research tools to find the necessary information.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions