De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Keepers With Questions/activities[pdf]

"Prairie Keepers with Questions/Activities" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the efforts to restore the praire. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining main idea, underlining supporting text, drawing pictures to depict the information in each paragraph, answering the multiple choice quiz, and writing a prairie poem telling why Midewin is so special. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.