De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Read to Learn About Elections [Pdf]

"Read to Learn about Elections" is a one page, nonfiction passage about government systems and workers that keep people safe including police officers, food inspectors, and water and sewer workers. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important information in each paragraph, determining the main idea, and then writing a summary of the passage using evidence from the text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, integrating ideas from different sources, and summarizing.