Unit Plan

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Working at the Television Station [Pdf]

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"Working at the Television Station" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the various jobs of workers at a television station. It is followed by questions which require 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.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)