Students explore standard RI.6.6 with this playlist. They will determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text. Students will explain how the author’s purpose is conveyed in the 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 quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as purpose and position • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Examples of different categories of writing and the typical reasons authors write these types of texts • 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 point of view through comparison • 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as medium and quantitative • Visual examples of how diagrams help the reader make sense of the text • Excerpts that allow students to practice integrating information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue • A self-check assessment that includes two multiple choice questions and one sorting question • 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, audio, or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes two multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question • Definitions of key terms, such as point of view • Exercises that allow students to practice using unit cultural context to explain why a character acts a certain way • An excerpt from "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu • An excerpt from "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde • An excerpt from "Daisy Miller" by Henry James • 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 six multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several nonfiction texts that allow students to trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not • Definitions of key terms, such as credible and bias • 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 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 cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 2 matching 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 analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text 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 trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims with this quiz. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 true/false question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.8.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand • "Free or Fugitive?" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure contributes to its meaning. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "A Dream within a Dream " by Edgar Allan Poe • "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman • An excerpt from "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.7.7 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan • An excerpt from "Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches" by President Barack Obama • An excerpt from "The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln" by Wayne Whipple • 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 integrate information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check" by the FDA • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.8.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • "1300 Perish in Wreck of the Titanic" by The San Francisco Call • "Liner Titanic Wrecked by Iceberg Passengers Transferred to Other Vessels in Mid Ocean" by Unknown (article from The Day Book) • 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 trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Sun Safety: Save Your Skin!" by the FDA • "Wildlife Photography" by Wisewire • "Zoo Meals" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.7 with this quiz.Students answer four questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version and to analyze the effects of techniques unique to each medium. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Ozymandias " by Percy Bysshe Shelley • An excerpt from "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell • 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 an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Is College for Everyone?" by Wisewire • "Letter on Thomas Jefferson" by John Adams • "Life Thrives in Scorching Deserts" by Wisewire • An excerpt from "Pathfinders of the West" by A.C. Laut • An excerpt from "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" by Merriwether Lewis • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.4 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text and to analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 matching question • "Barter " by Sara Teasdale • "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard L.7.5.B with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words. 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 L.7.5.A with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to interpret figures of speech in context This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 true or false question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.4 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text and to analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "A Dream within a Dream " by Edgar Allan Poe • "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 apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels