Because simplified readings of Shakespeare and other authors, and simplified social studies and science texts, are common, when students meet a passage that is in depth and embellished with figures of speech, parenthetical phrases, inferences, digressions, exposition and other literary enhancing devices, they often feel as though they are drowning in a sea of words. As a viable solution, please consider using Content Rich Text with Evidence Based Questions, #2: The Italian Elvis. The story itsel