In this playlist, students explore standard RL.7.4. They will explain how rhymes and repeated sounds impact a play. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as interjection and rhythm • Examples of how writers use interjections to create a mood or to emphasize a quality about a character Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

In this playlist, students explore standard RI.7.7. They will analyze how audio and video speeches add to or change the message and tone of text speeches. Students will work to understand the differences between text, audio, and video speeches. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as media and portrayal • Examples of how the presence of pauses and audience reactions in an audio version changes understanding Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities

In this playlist, students explore standard L.5.2.D. They will use italics or underlining to indicate titles of longer works like books and whole newspapers. Students will use quotation marks to indicate titles of shorter works, like magazine articles or chapters of books. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as underlining and quotation marks • Examples of how to indicate titles of longer works Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

In this playlist, students explore standard RL.6.2. They will write an objective summary of a text. Students will learn how to identify the most important information in a text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as objective and subjective • Examples of how to differentiate between objective and subjective summaries Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

In this playlist, students explore standard L.7.4.A. They will learn how to use a word’s position and function in a sentence to figure out meaning. Students will use the overall meaning of a sentence to figure out the meaning of an unknown word. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 5 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as context clues • Examples of how to look at nearby sentences to help determine the context of an unknown word Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

In this playlist, students explore standard RI.6.5. They learn how to analyze the way a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of ideas. Students look at examples of different text structures and their explanations and are guided through an analysis of an excerpt’s text structure. They apply what they learned in the playlist by analyzing the text structure of a section of text from a science or history textbook of their choosing. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • One link to a practice quiz or activity • Two links to instructional videos or texts • Definitions of the different types of text structures • Excerpt from Library of Congress article “Bowling Great Don Carter Was Born, July 29, 1926.” • A self-check consisting of informational passages, such as “Letter to the Editor in Support of Preserving Local Covered Bridges” and others, and four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Activities for students • Writing prompts for students • Links to additional resources, such as strategies to teach text structure • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level For more teaching and learning resources on standard RI.6.5, visit Wisewire.com.

In this playlist, students explore standard L.3.4.A. They learn how to find context clues and how to use different kinds of context clues to determine the meaning of a word or phrase. Students are walked through the process of identifying context clues and using them to determine the meaning of words or phrases. Students apply what they learned by selecting a passage to read, locating three sentences that have unknown words or phrases, and using context clues to determine the meaning. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • Two links to instructional videos • Two links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as synonyms and antonyms • Example sentences from “The Chipmunk” in Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs • A self-check quiz consisting of two multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Examples of using definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and examples as context clues to determine meaning For more teaching and learning resources on standard L.3.4.A, visit Wisewire.com.

In this playlist, students explore standard RL.4.2. They learn how to provide a summary of a literary text. Students are guided through examples of what to include in a summary, how to determine which details from the passage should be included in the summary, and how to write a summary. Students apply what they learned by writing a summary of a book they recently read. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • One link to a practice quiz or activity • Three links to instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as summary and paraphrasing • Examples of how to determine what should be included in a summary • Aesop’s fable “The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse” and a sample summary of the passage • A self-check quiz, consisting of story passages, such as “A Legend on the Ice,” “A Modern Day Tale of Gift of the Magi,” and others, and five multiple choice questions. Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Explanation of the difference between a theme and a summary • Links to additional resources for teaching summarization to students • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level For more teaching and learning resources on standard RL.4.2, visit Wisewire.com.

In this playlist, students explore standard L.4.4.A. They learn how to determine the meaning of a word or phrase using context clues. Students look at examples of common types of context clues and how to use them to determine meaning as well as apply what they learned by looking for context clues in a favorite story or poem. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • Two links to instructional videos or texts • Three links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as restatement and context • A self-check quiz consisting of three multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Example sentences with context clues and how they are used to determine the meaning of the unknown word or phrase Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Links to additional resources such as context clue worksheets • Activities for students, such as explaining context clues in a nonfiction text • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level • Writing prompts for students, such as writing about how context clues helped them determine meaning of an unknown word or phrase For more teaching and learning resources on standard L.4.4.A, visit Wisewire.com.

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 1 link to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 5 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and two sorting questions • Definitions of key terms, such as sentence • Examples of how to take a simple sentence and turn it into a compound or complex sentence • An accompanying Teaching Notes file <strong>The Teaching Notes file includes:</strong> • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 4 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as proper noun and end punctuation mark • Examples of how to fix errors in capitalization • Exercises that allow students to practice recognizing and correcting errors in capitalization • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and differentiation ideas to help your students explore the standard • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one sorting question • Definitions of key terms, such as attribution tag and quote • Examples of correct usages of commas with quotations • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and differentiation ideas to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 5 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one yes/no question • Definitions of key terms, such as figurative language and simile • Examples of sentences with similes or metaphors and what they compare • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes one multiple choice question and two matching questions • Definitions of key terms, such as topic sentence and key detail • Examples of how to use reference materials to determine the pronunciation and meaning of a word or phrase • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Students explore standard L.4.3.A with this playlist. They will analyze how specific word choice creates lively, clear text. Students will learn to recognize how to choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Examples of how to analyze how authors improve their writing through stronger word choices • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard L.4.3.B with this playlist. They will identify the conventions of punctuation. Students will recognize how punctuation can be used for effect. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one yes or no question • Definitions of key terms, such as punctuation and period • Examples of different types of sentences and their associated end marks • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard L.4.1.G with this playlist. They will recognize frequently confused words. Students will learn how to correctly use frequently confused words. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 6 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes one multiple choice question, one fill-in-the-blank question, and one yes or no question • Definitions of key terms, such as homonym • A chart listing commonly confused homonyms, their meaning, and an example sentence with each word • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one yes/no question • Definitions of key terms, such as coordinating conjunction and simple sentence • Examples of how to use commas in compound sentences • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

Students explore standard L.4.1.A with this playlist. They will learn how to use relative pronouns and adverbs. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as clause and antecedent • Examples of how relative pronouns are used in sentences • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • Differentiation ideas to help all of your students master the standard • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.9-10.2 with this playlist. They will provide an objective summary of a text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 link to practice activities or quizzes • 1 assessment that includes 5 multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as bias and supplementary • Examples of how to identify the main points of a text • An excerpt from "Address of the President at Suffrage Convention" by President Woodrow Wilson • "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry • "Alabama: Constitution of January 7, 1861" • An excerpt from "Truman Doctrine" by President Harry S. Truman • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities on certain parts of the standard, such as indirect character traits • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels