R.4.5.a

Description: Describe how the choice of language, setting, and characters contributes to the development of plot.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 5A

Exemplars

5A: Examining Text Structure

5A: Examining Text Structure

Description: Examining Text Structure

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: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: Which statement is correct about the narrator of this selection?
  1. The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
  2. The narrator is a character in the selection.
  3. The narrator does not know what the characters are feeling.
  4. This selection has no narrator.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Explain an author's use of description in a selection, and how the description shaped the way you viewed and understood the person, object, or event described.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions