CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
Description:
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
2A, 2A, 2C, 2C, 3A
Exemplars
2A: Determining Main Idea
2A: Determining Main Idea
Description:
Determining Main Idea and Themes
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-82
A-82
Grade level: 1
Word count: 537 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: What is a friendship? These two girls experience it every day.
Excerpt:
No excerpt is available for this question.
Question:
This selection is mainly about
- a friendship.
- a trip in an airplane.
- two cats.
- talking too much.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Use a story map to show the main idea and its supporting details in a selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
2C: Summarizing
2C: Summarizing
Description:
Summarizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-13
A-13
Grade level: 1
Word count: 662 words
Author: Jan Mader
Synopsis: The wind is an invisible superpower.
Excerpt:
Take a deep breath. Blow it out. What do you feel? That's air that has become wind. Wind is air that moves.
Question:
According to this selection, what is the definition of wind?
- air that moves
- warm air
- cold air
- air people can see
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
List four important facts you learned from an Non-fiction selection a write a summary of those facts.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
2A: Determining Main Idea
2A: Determining Main Idea
Description:
Determining Main Idea and Themes
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-19
A-19
Grade level: 1
Word count: 785 words
Author: Frederick H. Martens
Synopsis: The king's daughter is saved from the bird with nine heads by a young man named Will. Can they live happily ever after?
Excerpt:
No excerpt is available for this question.
Question:
This selection is mainly about a
- man who saves the king's daughter.
- dragon that is friendly and kind.
- king who does not keep his promise.
- friend who is not very nice.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Use a story map to show the main idea and its supporting details in a selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
2C: Summarizing
2C: Summarizing
Description:
Summarizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-22
A-22
Grade level: 1
Word count: 811 words
Author: Adapted from a story by A. L. Sykes.
Synopsis: A little rabbit finds out that it is important to follow rules.
Excerpt:
No excerpt is available for this question.
Question:
What is the main lesson of this selection?
- Follow the rules.
- Make your own rules.
- Try your hardest.
- Go out at night.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Using no more than 20 words, write a summary of a narrative selection you read. For example, if you read The Three Bears, you would write: bears come home, find broken chairs, see missing porridge, discover sleeping girl.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
3A: Predicting Outcomes
3A: Predicting Outcomes
Description:
Predicting Outcomes
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
A-25
A-25
Grade level: 1
Word count: 811 words
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Synopsis: A poor man and his wife ask for a little too much from a magic fish.
Excerpt:
"Go home," said the fish, "for she has it already."
The man returned home. There was his wife, sitting outside a stone castle. She took him into the great hall. There were many servants moving about. She showed him the fine chairs and tables. She showed him the rich foods. He looked out the tall windows. He saw gardens filled with beautiful flowers. He saw stables filled with strong horses.
"Is this not much better than before!" she said.
"Yes," said the man. "Now you can be happy for years to come."
"We'll see about that," said the wife. "Let us sleep on it." With that, they went to bed.
The man returned home. There was his wife, sitting outside a stone castle. She took him into the great hall. There were many servants moving about. She showed him the fine chairs and tables. She showed him the rich foods. He looked out the tall windows. He saw gardens filled with beautiful flowers. He saw stables filled with strong horses.
"Is this not much better than before!" she said.
"Yes," said the man. "Now you can be happy for years to come."
"We'll see about that," said the wife. "Let us sleep on it." With that, they went to bed.
Question:
Read the following excerpt. What does the wife mean when she says, "We'll see about that?"
- The wife will keep asking for more things.
- The wife is happy with all the things she has.
- The husband and wife will look for more magic fish.
- The husband will move to another castle.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write an email to a friend who has not read the selection. Provide enough information about the selection's characters, settings, and events so your friend is able to predict what happened in the selection.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions