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Common Lit: East German Man Receives Contest Prize 45 Years Later

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CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. This article is about a German man named Gunter Zettl who in 2014 was told that he had won a radio contest 45 years earlier, at a time when his country was in political turmoil. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice