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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar [Pdf] Unit PlanDe Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar [Pdf] Unit Plan
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar [Pdf]

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"Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about ways to save energy and money by sealing windows and using insulation. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining the main idea and underlining supporting text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice

Common Core

RI.2.2 RI.2.8 RI.3.2

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