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RI.2.1

Description: Ask and answer questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how, to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2B, 3B, 3C, 6A, 8B, 9B

Exemplars

2B: Analyzing Relative Importance

2B: Analyzing Relative Importance

Description: Determining Relative Importance

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-14

B-14

Grade level: 2
Word count: 934 words
Author: Amie Leavitt
Synopsis: Jane Goodall is an expert on chimps and one of nature's greatest friends.
Excerpt: During her trip, Goodall met a man named Louis Leakey. He was a scientist who studied the natural world. He studied fossils, animals, and plants. Leakey was impressed with Goodall's love of nature. So he hired her to work with his group of scientists.

At first, Goodall worked as a secretary. Then Leakey gave her other tasks to do. He could see that she had great potential as a scientist.

Question: Louis Leakey was most impressed with Goodall's
  1. love of nature.
  2. kindness.
  3. sense of humor.
  4. ability to work with others.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe parts of a selection that held important clues to help you understand what was happening.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

Description: Analyzing setting, plot, and character

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-21

B-21

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1150 words
Author: Amie Leavitt
Synopsis: Sister volcanoes: twice the fun, and twice the danger.
Excerpt: Native American groups said the mountain was a sacred place. They did not climb to the top. They were afraid that doing so might upset their gods.

Question: Native Americans did not climb to the top of Mount Rainier because
  1. they thought it might make the gods angry.
  2. English settlers were living at the top.
  3. they thought the mountain was too small to climb.
  4. the mountain constantly erupted with lava.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Explain why you agree or disagree with the behavior of a character.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

Description: Analyzing Cause and Effect

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-18

B-18

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1107 words
Author: R. Bender
Synopsis: It would be impossible to live without plants. They are very important to our lives. From breathing to eating to brushing our teeth, we use plants throughout the day.
Excerpt: How do plants put oxygen in the air? Inside the leaves of plants are special cells. These cells are where a plant makes food for itself. As a plant makes food in its cells, it gives off this gas. The gas goes into the air.

Question: The selection states oxygen enters the air when plants
  1. make food.
  2. are cut down.
  3. make water.
  4. are eaten.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write three "why" questions about things that happened in a selection and then answer those questions.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

Description: Recognizing Author's Purpose

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: HiB-6

HiB-6

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1143 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: When you adopt a pet from a shelter, you can do a world of good.
Excerpt: Puppy mills became big business. They "make" and sell puppies the way other mills make and sell cotton or flour.

But the trouble is, dogs are not cotton or flour. They're living, breathing creatures. Puppy mill owners care about making money. They don't care about dogs' well being.

Question: In this excerpt, why does the author say that dogs "are not cotton or flour"?
  1. She is pointing out that dogs shouldn't be treated like nonliving things.
  2. She is afraid readers won't know the difference between dogs and cotton or flour.
  3. She thinks it's more important for mills to make and sell cotton and flour.
  4. She believes that cotton and flour can be useful to dogs.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: List all the things you like about a selection. Then explain which of these reasons are based on fact and which are based on opinion.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

8B: Reasoning

8B: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-15

B-15

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1069 words
Author: Kate Carter
Synopsis: How to make your school environmentally friendly, one step at a time.
Excerpt: Now that we're outside, let's talk about the best thing you can do to help your school go green. Have a Walk Ride Day each month. That's a day when students, parents, teachers--everyone--agrees to walk, ride a bike, take a bus or subway, or share a ride to school. This is a win for everyone. You get exercise and have fun. Your school's neighborhood gets cleaner air.

Question: How does sharing a ride to school help the environment?
  1. You will use only one car, so you save gas and cause less pollution.
  2. While you ride to school, you can talk to your friends.
  3. Riding in a car is faster than walking or riding a bike, so you will arrive at school earlier.
  4. Riding in a car means you can do your homework on the way to school.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Tell how two (or more) facts from a selection led you to answer a question about the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

9B: Classifying

9B: Classifying

Description: Classify

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-49

B-49

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1087 words
Author: Barbara Smalley
Synopsis: Hot dogs are one of America's most popular foods.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: Hot dogs are popular for many reasons. All of these statements explain why hot dogs are popular EXCEPT
  1. "Hot dogs have a narrow tube shape, and they are usually brown."
  2. "Hot dogs can be easily heated in a pan, on a grill, or in boiling water."
  3. "Hot dogs are available in most places, and they do not cost much money."
  4. "Hot dogs can be served with any kind of topping a person likes."

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Write three headings: Places, Animals, Events. Under these headings, list the names and main ideas of at least 7 non-fiction texts you have read.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions