De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: More Trees [Pdf]

"More Trees" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a student and his mother getting trees from the city and planting them in their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining the theme or lesson learned 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.