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

Assess student understanding of standard RL.5.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell • An excerpt from "Beautiful Joe" by Marshall Saunders • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.5.7 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens • An excerpt from "The Bird with the Broken Wing" by Florence Holbrook • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.5.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov • "My Love Ship" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox • An excerpt from "A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia" by G. A. Henty • 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 a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 2 matching questions • "Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe • An excerpt from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.5.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text and to summarize the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "How I Learned to Ride" by Leo Tolstoy • An excerpt from "Beautiful Joe" by Marshall Saunders • "Benny's Big Game" by Wisewire • "Best Friends Forever" by Wisewire • An excerpt from "The Bird with the Broken Wing" by Florence Holbrook • 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 compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics and patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "Leif and His New Land" by Jennie Hall • "The First Voyage of Sinbad" by Logan Marshall • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.4.7 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett • An excerpt from "Leif and His New Land" by Jennie Hall • 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 a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Hiking in Gettysburg" by Wisewire • "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt • "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" by George Pope Morris • 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 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

Assess student understanding of standard RL.3.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 matching question • An excerpt from "Old Granny Fox" by Thornton W. Burgess • An excerpt from "The Adventures of Reddy Fox" by Thornton W. Burgess • 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 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.4.9 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

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.4.5 with this playlist. They will learn how to refer to the structural elements of poems and drama when writing or speaking about a text. Students explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose. 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as prose and drama • 1 assessment consisting of three multiple choice questions, one fill-in-the-blank question, and one matching question • Example texts with descriptions of the structural elements highlighted and discussed • An excerpt from “A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia” by G. A. Henty • An excerpt from “Dr. Hardhack’s Prescription” by K. McDowell Rice • “My Love Ship” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox • An excerpt from “The Boor” by Anton Chekhov • “The Ecchoing Green” by William Blake • 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 • 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 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