Students explore standard RL.11-12.4 with this playlist. They will analyze how specific word choice creates lively, aesthetically pleasing text. Students will determine how word choice affects meaning or advances the plot. 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 • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as connotation and tone • Examples of how to identify an author's use of personification • 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: • 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 analogy • Examples of how to make connections within a cause-and-effect text structure • “Currency in the United States of America” by Wisewire • “America’s Women Veterans” by the Department of Veterans Affairs • An excerpt from “Farewell Address of 1961” by President Eisenhower • “Is a Sloth Really Slothful?” by Wisewire • An excerpt from “Second Inaugural Address” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt • 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.8.5 with this playlist. They will identify various structures and structural components used for informational texts. Students evaluate the role of particular sentences in developing and refining key concepts. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as causal and refining • Examples of how to identify and analyze key concepts • An excerpt from "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas" by Chief Justice Warren • "Currency in the United States of America" by Wisewire • "School Uniforms Do More Harm Than Good" by Wisewire • "The Many Benefits of School Uniforms" 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 • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.6.2 with this quiz. Students answer six questions that test their 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. This product includes: • 6 multiple choice questions • "Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check" by the FDA • "The Past and Future of Television" by Wisewire • "Zoo Meals" 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 analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 fill-in-the-blank question • 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 demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Paradise Lost" by John Milton • 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 use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break with this quiz. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 fill-in-the-blank question • 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 explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 1 fill-in-the-blank question • 1 sorting question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.1 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "A New Normal" by Wisewire • "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman • 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 know there is a complex number i such that i squared = -1, and every complex number has the form a + bi with a and b real with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 fill-in-the-blank questions • 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 use the relation i squared = -1 and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties to add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 fill-in-the-blank questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "A Student’s History of England, v. 1" by Samuel Rawson Gardiner • An excerpt from "Robin Hood" by J. Walker McSpadden • 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 the text and to analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone 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

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 the text and to analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone 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

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 recognize that sequences are functions, sometimes defined recursively, whose domain is a subset of the integers with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 fill-in-the-blank questions • 1 multiple choice question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard 3.MD.A.1 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to tell and write time to the nearest minute, measure time intervals in minutes, and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes. This product includes: • 1 multiple choice question • 2 short answer questions • 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 derive the equation of a parabola given a focus and directrix with this quiz. This product includes: • 1 multiple choice question • 2 fill-in-the-blank questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard HSA.SSE.A.1.A with this quiz. Students answer two questions that test their ability to interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. This product includes: • 1 multiple choice question • 1 fill-in-the-blank question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.6 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.8.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Is a Sloth Really Slothful?" by Wisewire • "Providing Consumers More Information with Menu and Vending Labeling" by Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. (FDA employee) • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels