RW.2.2.2.a.iii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to: Summarize the main idea using relevant and significant details in a variety of texts.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2C

Exemplars

2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

Description: Summarizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-5

B-5

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1000 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: The English language is full of sayings that don't mean what they say.
Excerpt: Here's another idiom that may puzzle you: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." It means you shouldn't be sure something will happen. There's always a chance it won't happen at all.

Question: Someone who "counts their chickens before they hatch" is
  1. feeling sure a certain thing will happen.
  2. worrying too much about small details.
  3. working hard but not succeeding
  4. trying to make people laugh.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write an email to a friend and describe a selection you read.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions