Common Core: 4th Grade English Language Arts : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
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Example Question #173 : Reading
Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea (1835)
Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. Only a real one would do. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he came home again and was unhappy because he did so want to have a real Princess.
One evening a terrible storm blew up. It lightened and thundered and rained. It was really frightful! In the midst of it all came a knocking at the town gate. The old King went to open it.
Who should be standing outside but a Princess, and what a sight she was in all that rain and wind. Water streamed from her hair down her clothes into her shoes and ran out at the heels. Yet she claimed to be a real Princess.
"We'll soon find that out," the old Queen thought to herself. Without saying a word about it she went to the bedchamber, stripped back the bedclothes, and put just one pea at the bottom of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on the pea. Then she took twenty eiderdown feather beds and piled them on the mattresses. Up on top of all these the Princess was to spend the night.
In the morning they asked her, "Did you sleep well?" " Oh!" said the Princess. "No. I scarcely slept at all. Heaven knows what's in that bed. I lay on something so hard that I'm black and blue all over. It was simply terrible."
They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. So the Prince made haste to marry her because he knew he had found a real Princess.
As for the pea, they put it in the museum. There it's still to be seen unless somebody has taken it. There, that's a true story.
How do the text features relate to the text?
The illustrations feature all of the characters from the passage.
The illustrations feature the Prince proposing to the Princess to show the ending of the passage.
The illustrations feature a crown and a female wearing a crown who may be the Princess mentioned in the story.
The illustrations show the pea being placed under the mattresses and the Princess sleeping.
The illustrations feature a crown and a female wearing a crown who may be the Princess mentioned in the story.
The text features demonstrate details from the story to help readers envision what is taking place in the story.
Example Question #11 : Draw Connections Between Texts And Images
If a class is reading a non-fiction text about the formation of Earth's layers, why might the author include a graphic like the one below?
The visual will keep the reader's attention since non-fiction texts are often boring.
The visual will catch the reader's eye and encourage them to read the text about Earth's layers.
A visual representation will not impact the reader's experience, so it is unnecessary.
A visual representation of the information in a data table may help readers better understand what is taking place in the text.
A visual representation of the information in a data table may help readers better understand what is taking place in the text.
Many authors will use illustrations, pictures, photographs, diagrams, maps, or other visual text features to help readers understand what they are seeing. If the data and facts like in the data table above are explained in the text, it may not be easy to follow or picture. If the author provides graphic representation, the reader can better understand how the layers are broken up, what they are made of, and their source more clearly. Visuals are a text feature that adds to the text.
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