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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. Save 20% with this mini-bundle! 4 content-rich multimedia lessons integrate original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standards.
The Student Editions include:
• Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• Links to practice quizzes or activities
• 4 assessments that include 1 matching, 19 multiple choice and 1 sorting questions
• Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards
• Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading
• Excerpts from several high-quality texts, such as
“Barter” by Sara Teasdale
“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde
“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell
• Accompanying Teaching Notes files
The Teaching Notes files include:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further
• Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, 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. Save 20% with this mini-bundle! 4 content-rich multimedia lessons integrate original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standards.
The Student Editions include:
• Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• Links to practice quizzes or activities
• 4 assessments that include 1 sorting and 19 multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards
• Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading
• Excerpts from several high-quality texts, such as:
- “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer
- “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson
- “Pollyanna” by Eleanor H. Porter
• Accompanying Teaching Notes files
The Teaching Notes files include:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further
• Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK levels
In this quiz, students assess their understanding of standard RL.5.1. Students answer five multiple choice questions that test their ability to quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
This quiz includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels
In this playlist, students explore standard RI.5.2. They will determine two or more main ideas in an informational text. Students will explain how each main idea is supported by key details. 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 four multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as main ideas and key details
• Examples of how to identify the main idea and key details in a text
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.5.4. They will determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grades 3-5 topic or subject area. 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 affix and domain-specific words
• Examples of how to identify and interpret affixes
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Additional activities to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK levels
In this playlist, students explore standard RI.5.7. They will draw on information from multiple print or digital sources. Students will demonstrate the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• 6 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes two true/false questions and one multiple choice question
• Definitions of key terms, such as print sources and text features
• Examples of how to use the table of contents in a text to find answers
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels
In this playlist, students explore standard RI.5.6. They will analyze similarities and differences in the author’s point of view in multiple accounts of the same
event or topic. Students will study historical texts to compare and contrast the different accounts. 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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as point of view
• Excerpts from several texts, including "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass" by Fredrick Douglass
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 RI.5.3. They will learn how to describe the relationships between individuals, events, and ideas in an informational text. Students will use transition words to understand those relationships. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• 2 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 technical text and interaction
• Examples of how to identify individuals, events, ideas, and concepts in a text
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Additional activities to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK levels
In this playlist, students explore standard RL.5.6. They will describe how a narrator or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. Students will identify and understand the use of anecdotes in informational texts. 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 third-person omniscient and point of view
• Examples of the same story from different points of view
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 RL.5.9. They will compare and contrast adventure stories’ approaches to similar themes and topics. Students work through excerpts from such books as “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe. 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 two multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as genre and protagonist
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• 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.5.2. They will determine how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges. Students will read excerpts from several texts, including "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. 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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as character and challenge
• Excerpts from several texts including "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
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 RI.5.1. They will learn how to quote accurately from a text when drawing inferences from a text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• 6 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 1 link to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as quoting and inference
• Examples of how to take clues from what is clearly stated in the text and make inferences based on those clues
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Additional activities to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources on standard RI.5.1
• Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further
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 RL.5.3. They will compare and contrast two or more characters and settings in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. Students look at the ways the characters in a story are similar or different can give a reader a better understanding of the story. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• 4 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as contrast and event
• Examples of how to draw on key details to compare and contrast characters and settings
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
For more teaching and learning resources on standard RL.5.3, visit
In this playlist, students explore standard HS.S-ID.7. They will interpret the slope (rate of change) and the intercept (constant term) of a linear model in the context of the data. Students look at examples of data and are guided through finding the slope and intercept using various strategies. 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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as intercept and slope
• Examples of how to solve for slope and intercept
• A quiz with five multiple choice word problems
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• A review of key terminology
• Links to additional practice quizzes or activities on certain parts of the standard, such as identifying the y-intercept
• Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as switching the slope and y-intercept
For more teaching and learning resources on related standards, visit Wisewire.com.
In this playlist, students explore standard 4.OA.B.4. They learn how to list factor pairs of a whole number, determine whether a number is prime or composite, and determine whether a number is a multiple of a one-digit number. Students are walked through examples of determining the factors and/or factor pairs and product of equations, solving the equations, determining whether a number is prime or composite, and determining whether a number is a multiple of a one-digit number. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• Four links to practice quizzes or activities
• Four links to instructional videos or texts
• Definitions of key terms, such as factor pair and multiple
• Examples of determining factors/factor pairs and the product
• Examples of determining whether a number is prime or composite
• Examples of determining whether a number is a multiple of a one-digit number
• Explanation of how using a visual organizer can be helpful throughout these processes
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Review of key terminology
• Links to additional practice quizzes or activities on certain parts of the standard, such as finding factors
• Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as understanding the difference between factors and multiples
For more teaching and learning resources on standard 4.OA.B.4, visit Wisewire.com.
In this playlist, students explore standard L.7.1.B. They learn how to differentiate between simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Students look at sentence examples and are guided through the process of differentiating between the sentence forms, choosing different forms to signal differing relationships among ideas, as well as learning the importance of sentence variety. Students apply what they learned by writing a sentence for each of the four sentence forms. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
The playlist includes:
• Link to one instructional video or text
• Links to two practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as independent clause and predicate
• Practice activities, such as expanding sentences to the relationship between ideas
• A self-check quiz consisting of three multiple choice questions, one multiple select question, and one Yes/No question
Accompanying Teaching Notes include:
• Links to additional resources, such as tips for teaching sentence structure
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK level
• Differentiation activities, such as an activity for students struggling with telling the difference between the sentence types
For more teaching and learning resources on standard L.7.1.B, visit Wisewire.com.