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. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 6 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes one sorting and two multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as theme and plot • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to compare and contrast themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author • An excerpt from "Old Granny Fox " by Thornton W. Burgess • An excerpt from "The Adventures of Reddy Fox " by Thornton W. Burgess • An excerpt from “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter • An excerpt from “The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies” by Beatrix Potter • An accompanying Teaching Notes file <strong>The Teaching Notes file includes:</strong> • 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

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. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 6 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 objective and descriptive details • Examples of how to identify key details • Exercises that allow students to practice determining a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text • An excerpt from "The Adventures of Pinocchio " by Carlo Collodi • An accompanying Teaching Notes file <strong>The Teaching Notes file includes:</strong> • 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, 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. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Definitions of key terms, such as point of view and narrator • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to practice comparing their own point of view to that of the narrator or the characters • An excerpt from "The Bobbsey Twins at School " by Laura Lee Hope • “Afternoon on a Hill” by Edna St. Vincent Millay • An excerpt from “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell • An excerpt from “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter • “The Fable of the Ants,” a South African Fable • “The Elves and the Shoemaker” by the Grimm Brothers • An excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen • An accompanying Teaching Notes file <strong>The Teaching Notes file includes:</strong> • 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. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 4 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as evidence and claim • Examples of how to identify claims or opinions stated by authors • “Got Butterflies? Find Out Why” by the CDC • “Feelin’ Frazzled” by the CDC • “Where Do Old Satellites Go when They Die?” by NASA • An accompanying Teaching Notes file <strong>The Teaching Notes file includes:</strong> • 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as structure and narrator • Examples of how to analyze how the structure of the text affects the reader’s experience • 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 RI.8.3 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 matching question • "America’s Women Veterans" by the Department of Veterans Affairs • "Currency in the United States of America" by Wisewire • "Is a Sloth Really Slothful?" by Wisewire • 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: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question • Examples of how to analyze allusions in nonfiction texts • "New York, One Month After Sandy" by Michael Byrne (FEMA employee) • "Health Care Costs in the U.S." by Wisewire • An excerpt from "Memo to President Richard Nixon" by Henry Kissinger • An excerpt from "First Inaugural Address, January 20, 2001" by George W. Bush • 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

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: • 3 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 connotation and denotative • Examples of how authors try to bridge the gap so that readers can understand their writing • 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 four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question • Definitions of key terms, such as ellipses and dash • Examples of how to correctly use commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate pauses and breaks in a text • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional information on how punctuation affects tone • 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.9-10.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the 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

Assess student understanding of standard RL.8.1 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly and to draw inferences from the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Daedalus and Icarus," a Greek Myth • An excerpt from "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson • An excerpt from "Adventure II. The Red-headed League " by Arthur Conan Doyle • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RL.8.1 with this playlist. They will use textual evidence to support an analysis of a text’s explicit meaning. Students will support inferences using textual evidence. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 3 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 explicit information and textual evidence • Examples of how to cite textual evidence to support explicit information • An excerpt from "Adventure II. The Red-headed League " by Arthur Conan Doyle • “Daedalus and Icarus,” a Greek Myth • An excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen • An excerpt from “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson • 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.11-12.2 with this playlist. They will identify topics and use attention to detail to analyze how topics develop into themes. Students will work to identify and analyze two themes that build on one another. 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 five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as topic and theme • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional discussion guide 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 determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the 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

Assess student understanding of standard RL.9-10.1 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their 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. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 matching question • An excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe • An excerpt from "The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner • An excerpt from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain • 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 various types of phrases and clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels