In this playlist, students explore standard RL.5.2. They will determine the topic and theme of a poem. Students will describe how the speaker of a poem reflects upon the topic. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 5 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as topic and theme • Examples of how to identify the speaker, topic, theme, and tone by asking questions 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

Students explore standard RL.8.1 with this playlist. They will use textual evidence to support an analysis of a text’s explicit meaning. Students will support inferences using textual evidence. 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit information and textual evidence • Examples of how to cite textual evidence to support explicit information • An excerpt from "Adventure II. The Red-headed League " by Arthur Conan Doyle • “Daedalus and Icarus,” a Greek Myth • An excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen • An excerpt from “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson • 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 demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing with this quiz. 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 RL.6.1 with this playlist. They will use textual evidence to support an analysis of what the text says explicitly. Students will follow multiple steps to use textual evidence to support an analysis of what the text says explicitly. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and analyzing text • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • 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 RL.8.4 with this playlist. They will analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. Students determine the connotative meaning of words and phrases. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as denotations and connotations • Examples of how to interpret the meaning of an author’s word choices • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Differentiated instruction activity for students who learn best through visual displays or for students who learn best by reading text accompanied by audio • 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 • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as analysis and theme • Examples of themes that are popular in fantasy literature as well as myths of ancient Greece • 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 • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several texts that allow students learn how to analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone • Definitions of key terms, such as personification and metaphor • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • 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.7.2 with this playlist. They will write a theme statement. Students will explain how a theme develops over the course of a text. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one sorting question • Definitions of key terms, such as theme • Excerpts from several texts, including "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett • 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 symbolism and allegory • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.4.3 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 5 multiple choice questions • “Seahorses” by Wisewire • “Got Butterflies? Find Out Why” by the CDC • “Feelin’ Frazzled” by the CDC • “Fun With Fungi” by Wisewire • An accompanying 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 the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Hiking in Gettysburg" by Wisewire • "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt • "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" by George Pope Morris • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

In this playlist, students explore standard RL.5.7. They will analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to a text. Students will study illustrations to determine how illustrations can contribute to the tone and meaning of the story. 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 • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as multimedia elements and tone • Examples of different versions of Cinderella and how visual and multimedia elements change the tone and meaning of the familiar story 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.5.5. They will explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the structure of a poem.. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 5 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as denouement and exposition • Examples of how to identify and analyze key details 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.8.8. They will delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text. Students will assess whether the reasoning used in an argument is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient. They will recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • 1 link to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as relevant and evidence • Examples of how to delineate claims and evidence Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • 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 supporting arguments • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels

In this playlist, students explore standard L.6.4.C. They learn how to consult reference materials to determine the pronunciation of words and how to consult reference materials to clarify a word’s meaning. Students are guided through examples of when to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses and how to use them, and apply what they learned by using a reference material to look up unfamiliar words from an article. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • Six links to instructional videos or texts • Five links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of the different types of reference materials • Visual examples of the different types of reference materials • A self-check quiz consisting of three fill-in-the-blank questions Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Activities for students • Writing prompts for students • Links to additional resources, such as lesson plans on how to use a thesaurus • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level For more teaching and learning resources on standard L.6.4.C, visit Wisewire.com.

In this quiz, students assess their understanding of standard L.4.4.A. Students answer five questions that test their understanding of using context clues to determine meaning. This quiz includes: • Two fill-in-the-blank questions • Three multiple choice questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels For more teaching and learning resources on standard L.4.4.A, visit Wisewire.com.

In this quiz, students assess their understanding of standard RI.6.5. Students answer five questions that test their understanding of analyzing text structure. This quiz includes: • One multiple select question • One fill-in-the blank question • Three multiple choice questions • Informational passages, such as FDA’s “Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check” and others • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels For more teaching and learning resources on standard RI.6.5, visit Wisewire.com.

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 central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details and to provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments with this quiz. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • "A Rider on the Pony Express" by Wisewire • "Bind, Burn, and Bury: Funeral Rites from Different Cultures" by Wisewire • "For the Most Part, Few Young Adults Live With Their Parents" by Jonathan Vespa David Ihrke Ellyn Arevalo Steidl • "How to Make a Podcast" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

In this playlist, students explore standard RI.6.2. They learn how to determine the central idea of an informational text and its important details, identify opinions and judgements in a summary, and draft an objective summary. Students look at excerpts from informational texts and are guided through examples of putting together an objective summary. They apply what they learned by writing an objective summary of provided excerpt. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • Examples of objective summaries • Six links to instructional videos or texts • Excerpt from the “Foreword of Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack” by Alben W. Barkley • Excerpt from “Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internments of Civilians” • A self-check quiz consisting of informational passages, such as “The Past and Future of Television” and five multiple choice questions Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Activity for students • Writing prompt for students • Links to additional resources, such as guidelines for writing summaries • An accompanying answer guide that with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level For more teaching and learning resources on standard RI.6.2, visit Wisewire.com.

In this quiz, students assess their understanding of standard RI.5.5. Students answer four questions that test their understanding of text structures. This quiz includes: • Two multiple choice questions • Two fill-in-the-blank questions • Informational passages, such as an excerpt from "True Stories from History and Biography" • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels For more teaching and learning resources on standard RI.5.5, visit Wisewire.com.

In this playlist, students explore standard RI.5.5. They learn how to identify the structure of an informational text and how to compare and contrast the overall structures of two texts. Students are guided through three examples, two of identifying the structure of a singular paragraph and one of comparing and contrasting the structure of those paragraphs. Students apply what they learned by reading two excerpts and writing a paragraph comparing the structures. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. The playlist includes: • Two links to practice quizzes or activities • Three links to instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as chronology • Excerpts from “How Do Coral Reefs Form?” by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and “Coral Bleaching: Turning Up the Heat” by National Park Service • A self-check quiz consisting of informational passages, such as an excerpt from “Benjamin Franklin” by Mary Stoyell Stimpson and others, and two multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Activities for students, such as comparing and contrasting text structures in groups • Writing prompts for students, such as writing paragraphs using different structures • Links to additional resources, such as strategies for teaching text structure • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level For more teaching and learning resources on standard RI.5.5, visit Wisewire.com.