Unit Plan

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Our Street [Pdf]

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"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes sequencing, making inferences, determining character traits, finding the main idea, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing key ideas.

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