Table of Contents

January 2013: Poverty and Homelessness

• Table of Contents 2
• Welcome to Text2Reader 4
• Fiction: Living Rough 6
• • 1A: Making Meaning—Face to Face with Homelessness 9
  • 1B: Watching a TED Talk—"The Year I Was Homeless" 10
  • 1C: Write It Down—Blogging the Truth 11
  • Assessment Rubric: Writing a Blog Post 12
• Nonfiction: No Shelter Here 13
• • 2A: Looking for Answers 16
  • 2B: Write It Down—From the Mouths of Dogs 17
  • Student Self-Assessment: Narrative Writing Checklist 18
  • 2C: Making Meaning—Comparing Our Needs 19
  • 2D: Extending the Learning—Help for Homeless Dogs 20
• Graphic Text: Standing Together 23
• • 3A: Making Meaning—Responding to the Graphic Text 26
  • 3B: Sketching Out—Developing the Graphic Story 27
  • 3C: Groupthink—Creating a Rubric 28
• Digital Nation: "The Digital Divide" 29
• • 4A: Looking for Answers 31
• Readers Theater: Adapted from Living Rough 33
• • Assessment Rubric: Readers Theater 33
  • 5A: Readers Theater Script "The Secret I Hold" 34
• Suggested Resources 38
• Answer Keys 39