8R6

Description: Craft and Structure In literary texts, analyze how the differences between the point of view, perspectives of the characters, the audience, or reader create effects such as mood and tone. In informational texts, analyze how the author addresses conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A

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.

Question: What does Zavion grab from his house as he departs?
  1. shingles from the roof
  2. one of his dad's paintings
  3. a box of juice
  4. 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