CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.4
      Description:
        
          Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
        
    
    
      
        Maps to Reading Plus skills:
        
          4A
        
      
    
  Exemplars
4A: Interpreting Word Meaning
4A: Interpreting Word Meaning
              Description:
              Interpreting Word Meaning
            
          
          
          
              SeeReader
              
                 ✓ standard met 
              
            
            
              
              
              
              
                
              
              
              
                Selection:
                
                   D-9 
                
                
                  
              
              D-9
 Grade level:  4 
    
                    Word count: 1314 words 
                   Author: Madeline Arroyo 
                   Synopsis: First endangered, then protected, the wolf is still at risk.
                
              
                
                  Excerpt:
                  
                     The more people visit national parks and other wildlife-rich places, the more they're apt to help protect these lands--and the animals that live there. 
                    
 
                  
                
              
              
              
                Question:
                Read this excerpt from the selection. Which of the following best described the meaning of the word "apt"?
                
            
          - likely
- not willing
- afraid
- quietly
              Writing
              
                 ✓ standard met 
              
            
            
              
                  Writing prompt:
                  
                    Choose a selection that included some unfamiliar vocabulary. Replace the unfamiliar words with synonyms that are easier to understand yet still convey the same meaning.
                  
                
              Evaluator
                  Organization:
                  Certica Solutions