"By the Numbers: Childhood Poverty in the US"

APA Bibliography: Breslow, J. M. (2012, November 20). By the Numbers: Childhood Poverty in the U.S. Retrieved December 9, 2018, from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/by-the-numbers-childhood-poverty-in-the-u-s/.

Genre: Online Material, Nonfiction, Informational Text

Author Information: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/person/jason-m-breslow/.

Summary: This article tells the readers about the exact statistics of poverty. "The federal poverty guideline for a family of four is $23,050...More than 16 million children, or roughly one in five, were living in poverty in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's official poverty measure." The author has direct links of the statistics embedded in each section if the reader wants more details on it.

Target Audience: I would say that the target audience is anyone in high school or older. You have to be a little older to under what exactly the stats are saying. The article also uses some sophisticated wording.

Evaluation: I actually really found this article very helpful. I was able to find out what exactly the statistics of poverty are in the US. It gives you an insight on how the US is now faring as great as we had thought in terms on beating poverty.

Reader Response Activity: You can have your students get into eight groups, one for each section of the article. Then have each group do more research about their section and present it to the rest of the class. This will give the students an insight on how it is like to be living in poverty.