The One Great Text I shared is an article entitled “Gloomy Underpass Transformed Into Awesome Kids’ Park” that I found on the website, TeachingKidsNews.com. This website is a great resource that provides articles on current events written in language understandable to elementary-age children. I shared this particular article because I hoped it would be interesting to my case study participant. The article is about an amusement park that was built underneath an underpass in Toronto, Canada. I would use this article in a science lesson about the different careers that scientists go into, such as engineers that help build parks like the one in the article (TEKS 3D).
When I read this article to my student, he said that he thought it was interesting because it reminded him of “parks that are really beautiful” and you can see “the cool stuff.” He also liked the picture provided because “it looks really familiar” like the underpasses in Austin.