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Assess student understanding of standard RI.8.8 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text and to recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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.9-10.9 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
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
Students explore standard RH.9-10.5 with this playlist. They will identify the five most common text structures. Students will analyze the way a text uses each structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. 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
• Definitions of key terms, such as cause and effect
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Excerpts from several texts including Patrick Henry's, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
• 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.9-10.2 with this playlist. They will analyze how a theme or central idea develops over the course of the text (e.g., motif), including evidence from the text as support. Students will explain how specific details from the text refine or create subtle distinctions that shape the theme using a range of textual evidence. 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 two multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as subject and theme
• Excerpts from several texts, including "Don Quixote de La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RI.9-10.9 with this playlist. They will analyze seminal U.S. documents for key themes, including related concepts across multiple texts. Students will evaluate the impact of rhetorical features and literary elements in seminal U.S. documents. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 3 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as rhetorical feature and concept
• 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.9-10.7 with this playlist. They will analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic media. Students will look closely at authors' emphasis and purpose. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 3 links to instructional videos, audio files, 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 representation and medium
• Excerpts from several texts, including "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
• 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.11-12.9 with this playlist. They will identify and analyze the purpose and theme of a primary document. Students will explore rhetorical features of a primary document. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 7 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
• 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:
• 3 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 textual evidence and inference
• Examples of how to determine where a text leaves matters uncertain
• 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.9-10.4 with this playlist. They will analyze the impact of word choices on meaning and tone. Students will think critically about how the cumulative effect of word choices evokes a sense of time, place, and the relationship between characters. 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 and two matching questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as tone and denotative meaning
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional activities to help your students explore the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RI.9-10.8 with this playlist. They will delineate and evaluate an argument. 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 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as fallacious argument and evidence
• Excerpts from several texts, including President Andrew Jackson's "Message to Congress on Indian Removal"
• 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. 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 16 multiple choice and 4 matching 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:
Preface to “Our Vanishing Wild Life” by William T. Hornaday
“Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day” by Ronald Reagan
“The Military Argument” by Alice Stone Blackwell
• 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
Assess student understanding of standard RL.9-10.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 3 multiple choice questions
• An excerpt from "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
• An excerpt from "Ulysses" by James Joyce
• 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 cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 2 multiple choice questions
• 1 true/false question
• An excerpt from "The Sport of the Gods (1902)" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Assess student understanding of standard RI.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, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings and to analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
This product includes:
• 3 multiple choice questions
• 2 matching questions
• "Sugar, Sugar " by Wisewire
• An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan
• 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. 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
Assess student understanding of standard RI.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, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings and to analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
This product includes:
• 3 multiple choice questions
• 2 matching questions
• "How to Make a Podcast" by Wisewire
• "Preface to Our Vanishing Wild Life" by William T. Hornaday
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) 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 RL.5.1. They will draw inferences from the text and use evidence to support those inferences. 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
• 5 links to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and quotes
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
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, word counts, and DOK levels
