CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.5

Description: Craft and Structure Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 5A, 5B

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

5B: Examining Sequence

5B: Examining Sequence

Description: Examining Sequence of Ideas and Events

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: D-15

D-15

Grade level: 4
Word count: 1303 words
Author: Joyce C. Trygstad
Synopsis: The aquarium's dolphin is unhappy. Can scientists figure out how to help him?
Excerpt: When the scientists noticed that the dolphin rarely came to the surface to get air, and showed no interest in eating, they began to worry.

They'd put microphones in and above the pen to increase the volume of the sounds Whittles made.

Midnight Maid pushed Whittles up several times while he breathed.

Then he played the recording at a slow speed. At the regular speed, the recording sounded like the familiar clicks and whistles. At the slower speed, however, the dolphins' sounds were similar to the sounds of human language.

Question: Put the following events in the order in which they occurred, from first to last.
  1. Whittles stopped eating his food.
  2. Scientists put microphones in and above Whittles' pen.
  3. Midnight Maid pushed Whittles up to the surface of the water.
  4. The scientists listened to slowed-down recordings of Whittles and Midnight Maid.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe a selection's beginning, middle, and end.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions