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 produce simple, compound, and complex sentences with this quiz. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 3 multiple choice questions • 2 matching questions • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.4.9 with this playlist. They will integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject. Students will practice such strategies as asking questions, determining the main idea, finding key details, and looking for text features while reading various texts. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Examples of how to integrate information by comparing and contrasting • An excerpt from “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass • "Douglass’s Escape from Slavery " by Library of Congress • “Who Was Alan Shepard?” by NASA • 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 • Ideas on how to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of your students • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RL.3.2 with this playlist. They will explain how the message or moral is told through key details in the text. Students will determine the central message, lesson, or moral in a text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 3 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 central message • Examples of how to determine the moral of a story • An excerpt from “The Crow and the Pitcher” by Aesop • An excerpt from “The Lantern and the Fan” by Florence Holbrook • An excerpt from “Thunder and Anansi,” a West African Folktale • An excerpt from “What the Ash and the Maple Learned” by Mabel Powers • 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 • 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

Students explore standard RL.3.4 with this playlist. They will examine the differences between literal and nonliteral phrases. Students will find examples of nonliteral phrases in a passage or text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. <strong>This product includes:</strong> • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 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 nonliteral and context clues • "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny " by Beatrix Potter • An excerpt from “The Magic Fishbone” by Charles Dickens • “Afternoon on a Hill” by Edna St. Vincent Millay • An excerpt from “The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City” by Laura Lee Hope • "The Elves and the Shoemaker " by the Grimm Brothers • 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> • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 6 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as character traits • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to practice explaining how characters’ actions contribute to the sequence of events in a story • “Lazy Kate” by Wisewire • An excerpt from “Peter and Wendy” by J.M. Barrie • "The Elves and the Shoemaker " by the Grimm Brothers • An excerpt from "The Adventures of Reddy Fox " by Thornton W. Burgess • An excerpt from "A Little Princess " by Frances Hodgson Burnett • An excerpt from "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny " by Beatrix Potter • 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> • 3 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as illustration and mood • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to practice explaining how an illustration can contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story • “Foreign Lands” by Robert Louis Stevenson • An excerpt from “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault • An excerpt from “Why the Tail of the Fox Has a White Tip” by Mabel Powers • An excerpt from “The Two Millers” by Augusta Stevenson • 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 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 • 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