De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]

"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes sequencing, making inferences, describing characters, finding the main idea, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, and main idea, and summarizing.