"A Good Student" is a one page, fictional reading passage about a freshmen going to a large high school on the first day of school. 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.