De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My First Baseball Game [Pdf]

"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy going to his first baseball game and learning what it means to be a Chicago Cubs fan. It is followed by open-ended questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining the main idea and explaining how they know it is the main idea based on the text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.