De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Lexington [Pdf]

"Lexington" is a one page, historical fiction, reading passage about soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War. A soldier describes the feeling of being an American. 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.