Pair your copy of “Character Counts: Young Abraham Lincoln (The Pillar of Citizenship)” by Andrew Woods, with our text-dependent questions and Close Reading study sheet to teach Common Core standards for informational text RI 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9. Then, using the study sheet, help students write an informational or an opinion paragraph about Lincoln using our paragraph scaffold and thematic publication page.Included in this packet:• Text-dependent question (TDQ) card• Close Reading worksheet•