Reading to Learn about Chicago
Apply Common Core Competencies to Learn about the Great Chicago Fire
Read to Learn about Chicago Progress: Readings and Resources
Nonfiction Learning Connects Ideas and Information
Chicago Nonfiction Main Idea Developers
Exhibit/Explain Important Learning identify important ideas about a topic and explain them
Grade Levels are based on Fry Readability scales, the texts can be used at other levels.
After the Fire sequence and summarize (3rd grade reading level)
Chicago Changes support the main idea in nonfiction texts (3rd grade reading level)
Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish (3rd grade reading level)
Chicago Legacy, DuSable's Choices and Changes locate and use information to analyze a situation, then write about it English / Spanish (3rd grade reading level)
Chicago's First Leader (3rd grade reading level)
Grant Park write an extended response based on a nonfiction reading (3rd grade reading level)
Pilsen, A Community Changes identify causes and effects English / Spanish (3rd grade reading level)
Prairie Ecology analyze information in a nonfiction text (3rd grade reading level)
Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet: Grades 3-4 / Grades 5-6 / Grades 7-8
Chicago Changer, Jane Addams, Better Living in Chicago restate a situation presented in a text and write to communicate about a situation (4th grade reading level)
The Early Chicago Environment and People classify information and summarize a nonfiction topic (4th grade reading level)
Illinois Pioneers and Prairies infer while reading a history (4th grade reading level)
My First Baseball Game comprehensive fiction assessment with questions and answer key: 3rd-4th Grade 5th-6th Grade 7th-8th Grade
Prairie Changes identify an author's purpose, write an extended response (4th grade reading level)
Prairie Changing the Ecosystem analyze information in a nonfiction text (4th grade reading level)
Prairie Keepers analyze information in a nonfiction text (5th grade reading level)
Prairie Seasons analyze information in a nonfiction text (5th grade reading level)
Chicago Changer, Jane Addams identify and support the main idea and write a constructed response (5th/6th grade reading level)
Chicago Legacies Extended Response Organizer (grades 5-8)
How Have Students Made Community Progress? analyze a problem and solution in a text, identify and support the main idea English / Spanish (upper grades)
Reversing the Chicago River identify cause-effect relations and make predictions (upper grades)
An African Heritage in Chicago identify and support the main idea in a nonfiction passage (6th grade reading level)
Chicago's First Leader (6th grade reading level)
Prairie Settlement analyze information in a nonfiction text (6th grade reading level)
Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress identify and support the theme of a text English / Spanish (7th/8th grade reading level)
What is Your Own Big Plan? analyze a text and respond to the issues it presents, write an extended response to a persuasive text English / Spanish (7th/8th grade reading level)
What Values Have Shaped Chicago? identify the main idea of a passage English / Spanish (7th/8th grade reading level)
Why is Community Service Important? identify the main idea and supporting information English / Spanish (7th/8th grade reading level)
Chicago Changer, Jane Addams identify and support the main idea and write a constructed response (8th/9th grade reading level)
Chicago is a City of Possibilities: Deval Patrick, Leader for Chicago analyze a text and write an extended response based on it (8th grade reading level)
Graphic Organizers to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Learning