http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/03/ Lesson

http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/phrase_infinitive.pdf

http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/phrase_gerund.pdf

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/ (lesson)

Supports common core RI: the central idea, what the author is trying to say or prove and the conclusion of the article. This will show the development of the article and how the article develops according to this evidence.
http://www.dogonews.com/2013/8/6/new-zealands-glow-in-the-dark-cave-is-powered-by-flies

Supports common core RI: read and analyze passage. Establish an analysis and textual citation.

http://www.dogonews.com/2013/8/9/coming-to-a-sky-near-you-the-spectacular-perseid-meteor-showers

write the inference, any evidence from the articles to support your claim, and what your objective summary is.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/05/working-on-the-moon-with-lunar-soil-and-grit-could-prove-easier-more-efficient-and-less-costly-than-using-earthly-materials/

Common core RI: State the inference, evidence, and objective summary from the article.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/05/smile-dimples-boost-your-mileage/

Support of common core standard: use the article's concluding areas to demonstrate the inferences, explicit evidence, central idea, development of article, and objective summary.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/06/wanted-smart-cleaners/

Common core standard: state the central idea plus any evidence from the text that helped you identify the central idea.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/technology/in-some-schools-students-bring-their-own-technology.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/08/huge-gas-cloud-is-being-stretched-shredded-and-destroyed-by-the-black-hole-at-the-center-of-the-milky-way/
Supports common core standards: state the central idea and cite textual evidence that supports the central idea.

http://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/10-04-12
Supports common core standard: cite the evidence using explicit and/or inferences to support what the text says