4RI6 First hand and Second hand accounts

April 2, 2012
Dear Diary,
Today, I bought a red bicycle with the money I saved. It took me a whole year to save enough from my babysitting jobs! The bike has a white racing stripe and a bell on the handlebars. None of the other kids at school has a bike like this one. Dad is going to buy me a flashing light to put on the back. Then I will be all set to ride it to school. I think today is the happiest day of my life so far!
Imagine the story is being told by the narrator’s grandmother. How would it likely be different?

• The reader would not learn whether the kids at school have the same bike
• the reader would not find out why the girl feels so happy about the bike
• There would be more examples of the girl's thoughts and feelings
• there would be less information about what the bike looked like

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.6

Passage 2
The first winter storm of the year has hit the Pacific Northwest. So far, Washington has been the hardest hit. Reports from the east side of the state say that more than two feet of snow has fallen in the past 24 hours. Ice has been a problem in the mountain passes. Ski areas on Mt. Rainier report very slick roads. Snow is also falling lightly at this hour in Olympia and Tacoma. Seattle is clear and cold. We thank the reporters at our sister station up in Washington, KARA, for bringing us this report.The weather report in passage 2 is a secondhand account because the narrator

• is writing about things he or she did not see
• is talking directly to the audience as the report is given
• went to the places in the report in order to write about them
• tells about different parts of the state instead of just one

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

Which of the following is an example of a first hand account?

• interview
• encyclopedia
• textbook
• nonfiction books

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CCSS.RI.4.6

You read a book about World War I. It includes letters written from the soldiers to their loved ones back home in America, telling them about the war. The letters from the soldiers are  examples of...

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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CCSS.RI.4.6

You are writing an informational article about the invention of color television in the 1950s. The informational article is an example of a

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.6