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

"Mousie" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy who caught, tamed, and learned about mice using a scientific method. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining the main idea and explain what information you used to make that inference. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, and main idea.