"Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the hardships of life of the prairie for the early settlers. 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 letter from a settler's viewpoint to someone back home. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

Concepts

letter writing, reading comprehension, westward expansion

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Additional Tags

life on the prairie, "settlement with multiple choice questions", common core anchor reading standard 1, depaul university, depaul: center for urban education: settlement with multiple choice questions, polk brothers foundation center for urban education, prairie life

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Classroom Considerations

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

Common Core

CCRA.R.2