De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Transportation Routes [Pdf]

"Changing Transportation Routes" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about how the problem of public transportation could be solved through the process of surveying the community, developing a workable solution, and presenting it to those in charge. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes determining the lesson to be learned and underlining text to support it. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, and main idea.