3.RI.2

Description: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2A, 2B

Exemplars

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: C-4

C-4

Grade level: 3
Word count: 1243 words
Author: Mary Dunn
Synopsis: Rachel Carson sounded an alarm about the environment while everyone else was asleep.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: What is another good title for this selection?
  1. Warrior for the Environment
  2. The Woman Who Loved Birds
  3. The Cape Cod Shoreline
  4. Why Chemicals Are Bad

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe three clues in a selection that helped you determine the main idea of the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2B: Analyzing Relative Importance

2B: Analyzing Relative Importance

Description: Determining Relative Importance

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: C-25

C-25

Grade level: 3
Word count: 1130 words
Author: Marshif Quoyle
Synopsis: How do green plants matter? Let us (lettuce!) count the ways.
Excerpt: The links in that food chain begin with a green plant and then go on to insects and worms.

People and other large animals are at the end of many food chains. A food chain ends with an animal that will not be eaten by another animal.

The second link in any food chain is always a creature that eats plants.

Question: Think about what you read. Put these links to a food chain in order, from the first link in the last.
  1. plant
  2. grasshopper
  3. frog
  4. hawk

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