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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:
• 1 link to instructional videos or texts
• 4 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as synonym and adjective
• Examples of how to use context clues to make connections
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RL.4.3 with this playlist. They will learn how to understand how the characters, setting, and events in a story can help the reader understand a text. Students will draw on specific details in a text to help describe a story, such as characters’ thoughts, words, and actions. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 4 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as drama and mood
• “Dreams of the Mole People” by Wisewire
• An excerpt from “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault
• An excerpt from “Hansel and Gretel” by the Grimm Brothers
• “Ronnie and the Roller Coaster” by Wisewire
• An excerpt from “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 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
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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as allusions and context clues
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Examples of how to determine the meaning of a word based on how it refers to mythology
• "How the Camel Got His Hump" by Rudyard Kipling
• "If You Were Coming in the Fall" by Emily Dickinson
• "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Grimm Brothers
• An excerpt from "The Lost Prince" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 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
Students explore standard L.4.4.B with this playlist. They will identify common Greek and Latin affixes and roots. Students will learn how to recognize how affixes and roots can be used as clues to determine the meaning of a word. 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
• Definitions of key terms, such as roots and affixes
• 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:
• 4 links to instructional videos or texts
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as affix and suffix
• Examples of how words change when affixes are added
• 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 quizzes are brief, formative diagnostic tools designed to test mastery and identify misconceptions a student has around a single Common Core standard. Assess your students' ability to determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text and to summarize the text with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• "The First Voyage of Sinbad" by Logan Marshall
• "A Modern Day Tale of Gift of the Magi" by Wisewire
• "Diagnosis" by Wisewire
• "A Legend on the Ice" by Wisewire
• "The Little Hero of Haarlem" by Sara Cone Bryant
• An accompanying 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:
• 8 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 6 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as pronoun and adverb
• Examples of how to identify how a word or group of words is functioning in a sentence
• 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 (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard L.3.1.D with this playlist. They will learn how to form and use regular and irregular verbs. 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
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes one sorting question and four multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as past tense and irregular verb
• Examples of how to irregular verbs change form
• 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:
• 5 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 5 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions, 1 sorting question, and 1 fill-in-the-blank question
• Definitions of key terms, such as regular plural noun and singular noun
• Examples of common spelling rules for nouns
• 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 (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, audio, or texts
• 3 links to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as concrete noun and abstract noun
• Examples of how to use abstract nouns in sentences
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• 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 (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Assess student understanding of standard RL.6.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
This product includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RI.8.9 with this playlist. They will analyze a case in which two informational texts disagree on the same topic. Students will identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. 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
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as conflicting information and interpretation
• Excerpts from several texts that allow students to identify where the texts disagree
• 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.6.2.A with this playlist. They will recognize nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in a sentence. Students will use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements. 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 five multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as parenthetical element and relative adverbs
• Excerpts from texts such as "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Loftin
• 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 RI.7.8 with this playlist. They will trace and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a text. Students will assess whether the reasoning an author uses is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to
support the claims. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 4 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one true or false question
• Definitions of key terms, such as reasoning and claims
• Examples of how to identify and analyze claims in several texts
• “Hunger In Our Schools: Breakfast Is A Crucial ‘School Supply’ for Kids In Need” by Tom Nelson
• “The Curious Life and Times of William Walker” by Wisewire
• “What’s For Breakfast?” by Wisewire
• 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 on certain parts of the standard, such as establishing arguments
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.3 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact.
This product includes:
• 4 multiple choice questions
• 1 sorting question
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Assess student understanding of standard RI.9-10.9 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
This product includes:
• 4 multiple choice questions
• 1 sorting question
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RH.9-10.5 with this playlist. They will identify the five most common text structures. Students will analyze the way a text uses each structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 4 links to instructional videos or texts
• Definitions of key terms, such as cause and effect
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Excerpts from several texts including Patrick Henry's, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
• 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 RL.9-10.2 with this playlist. They will analyze how a theme or central idea develops over the course of the text (e.g., motif), including evidence from the text as support. Students will explain how specific details from the text refine or create subtle distinctions that shape the theme using a range of textual evidence. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 5 links to instructional videos or texts
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes two multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as subject and theme
• Excerpts from several texts, including "Don Quixote de La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RI.9-10.9 with this playlist. They will analyze seminal U.S. documents for key themes, including related concepts across multiple texts. Students will evaluate the impact of rhetorical features and literary elements in seminal U.S. documents. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 3 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as rhetorical feature and concept
• 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 RL.9-10.7 with this playlist. They will analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic media. Students will look closely at authors' emphasis and purpose. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 3 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes two multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as representation and medium
• Excerpts from several texts, including "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
• 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