"A New Park" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about how a school in need of a playground got a city park instead. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes sequencing, making inferences, finding main ideas, recognizing character traits, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1 requiring close reading and textual evidence and Reading Standard 2 requiring central ideas/themes and summarizing key ideas.