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Students explore standard RL.4.6 with this playlist. They will compare and contrast the points of view in different stories. Students will distinguish between first- and third-person narrations. 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 one multiple choice question, two fill-in-the-blank questions, and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as narrator and point of view
• Examples of different points of view
• "The First Voyage of Sinbad" by Logan Marshall
• An excerpt from "Leif and His New Land" by Jennie Hall
• "The Witness" by Wisewire
• An excerpt from "The Darning Needle" by Hans Christian Andersen
• 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.4.9 with this playlist. They will compare and contrast the treatment of similar patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Students will practice organizing plot events by playing a simple game. 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 three multiple choice questions
• An excerpt from "The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse" by Aesop
• "The Hare and the Tortoise" by Aesop
• "The Tortoise and the Ducks" by Aesop
• An excerpt from "Leif and His New Land" by Jennie Hall
• "The First Voyage of Sinbad" by Logan Marshall
• "Turtle’s Race, Second Version" by Ojibwa Fable
• "Why Does the Buffalo Walk Slowly and Tread Gently?" by Romanian Fable
• 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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as fable and theme
• Excerpts from several texts that allow students to examine similarities and differences between stories that share a similar theme and topic
• An excerpt from "The Adventures of Pinocchio " by Carlo Collodi
• An excerpt from "The Owl in the Ivy Bush" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• "The Little Hero of Haarlem" by Sara Cone Bryant
• An excerpt from "The Grasshopper and the Ant" by Jean de la Fontaine
• An excerpt from "How the Camel Got His Hump" by Rudyard Kipling
• 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 levels
Students explore standard RL.4.7 with this playlist. They will compare text and visual versions of the same story. Students will identify where specific phrases and sentences from a text are shown visually. 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 three multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as oral version and visual version
• An excerpt from “Leif and His New Land” by Jennie Hall
• An excerpt from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum
• 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
• 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 explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences 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.4.2 with this playlist. They will determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem using details in the text. Students look at examples of stories and ask questions to help determine the theme. 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 theme and inference
• An excerpt from "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• "The Tiger" by William Blake
• An excerpt from "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop
• An excerpt from "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov
• An excerpt from "The Mischievous Dog" by Aesop
• An excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel" by the Grimm Brothers
• 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.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