Reaching for the New Reading Standards

Time to Read

FSA Style

Set your purpose for reading by thinking about today's reading standard and your I can statement.

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A: Why is the Wolf put in prison?

• A. He knocked down the houses.

• B. He was asking for sugar.

• C. He ate two of the pigs.

Multiple Choice

Part B: Which detail supports your answer in Part A?

• A. Because he is suffering from a cold, Wolf accidentally blows the first Little Pigs house

• B. Wolf decides to eat them in order to not let a "perfectly good ham dinner go to waste".

• C. The third Little Pig reports Wolf to the police and is sentenced to ten millenniums in prison..

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A: Why did the gorilla throw the wood at the narrator?

• A. The crowd was boring.

• B. The gorilla wanted to play.

• C. The narrator was being mean.

Multiple Choice

Part B: Which detail supports your answer in Part A?

• A. “Do you like this shirt?” I asked in

  a superior voice.

• B. It looked like a brick, but as he got closer, I saw that it was a piece of carved, dark wood.

• C. Nobody spoke, but some let out a gasp.

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A: Why is someone in the poem

sad?

• A. The flowers are gone.

• B. The fairies left for winter.

• C. The silvery bells are flying.

Multiple Choice

Part B: Which line supports your answer

in Part A?

• A. The flower will bloom another year.

• B. Weep no more! O, weep no more!

• C. See me! 'tis this silvery bell

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A: Why did the

narrator overlook the penguins swimming toward him?

• Things like this always happen.

• He really likes the penguins.

• The day seemed so normal.

Multiple Choice

Part B: Which detail supports your answer in Part A?

• I mean, it’s not something you

  expect, is it?

• All pretty much normal.

• I guess I should have realized something was up for at one point.

Poll

Learning Target

I can refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

• 1. I am unable to

  explain what a

  piece of nonfiction

  teaches me by

  referring to details

  and examples in

  the text.

• 2. I am beginning to

  understand how to

  explain what a

  piece of nonfiction

  teaches me by

  referring to details

  and examples in

  the text.

• 3. Most of the time, I

  can explain what a

  piece of nonfiction

  teaches me by

  referring to details

  and examples in

  the text. I can

  draw inferences

  from the text with

  a few errors.

• 4. I can fully explain

  what a piece of

  nonfiction teaches

  me by referring to

  details and

  examples in the

  text. I can draw

  inferences from

  the text.