De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Better Community [Pdf]

"A Better Community" is a one page, fictional reading passage that focuses on recycling. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing, making inferences, finding the main idea, recognizing character traits, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1 requiring close reading and textual evidence. A link is provided for fictional graphic organizers.