CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.1
Description:
Key Ideas and Details
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
1A, 1B
Exemplars
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
Description:
Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
H-1
H-1
Grade level: 8
Word count: 1899 words
Author: Tamara Ellis Smith
Synopsis: A boy and his father fight the waves and wind to escape an epic storm.
Excerpt:
Zavion turned his head and saw his house, or what was remaining of his house, which now appeared as a receding, tattered box in the distance. Damaged beams gave the impression of legs buckled at the knees. Then more tiles flew off the collapsing roof, like seagulls crashing into waves to snatch their dinner.
Zavion decided to grab two shattered shingles as they drifted by.
Zavion decided to grab two shattered shingles as they drifted by.
Question:
What does Zavion grab from his house as he departs?
- shingles from the roof
- one of his dad's paintings
- a box of juice
- a roll of canvas
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe a selection you have read that has an untrustworthy narrator and explain how you know the narrator is untrustworthy.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
1B: Analyzing Implicit Details
Description:
Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
H-2
H-2
Grade level: 8
Word count: 1800 words
Author: Jules Verne
Synopsis: Is the mysterious object a floating island, a gigantic whale, or a creature unknown to science?
Excerpt:
On March 5, 1867, the "Moravian" from the Montreal Ocean Company ran afoul of a rock marked on no charts of these waterways.
This event, extremely serious in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like so many others, if three weeks later it had not been reenacted under the same conditions. Only, thanks to the nationality of the ship damaged by this new ramming, and thanks to the reputation of the company to which this ship belonged, the event caused a huge uproar.
This event, extremely serious in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like so many others, if three weeks later it had not been reenacted under the same conditions. Only, thanks to the nationality of the ship damaged by this new ramming, and thanks to the reputation of the company to which this ship belonged, the event caused a huge uproar.
Question:
Choose the sentence in this excerpt that explains why the damage to the "Scotia" made big news.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
What text clues in a selection led you to conclude that a character was good or evil?
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions