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 three multiple choice questions and two matching questions • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit information and key details • Examples of how to come up with questions while reading to deepen understanding • "A History of Candles" by Wisewire • "Sunscreen for Your Sun Day" by the CDC • An excerpt from "The Insect Folk" by Margaret Warner Moreley • "Trains of the Future, Today" by Wisewire • "Why Is the Moon So Scarred with Craters?" by NASA • 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 five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as phrase and dependent clause • Examples of how to use commas to set off introductory words, phrases, and clauses • 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 RI.3.2 with this playlist. They will determine the main idea of a text. Students will recount key details in a text and explain how they support the main idea. 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 four multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as main idea and recount • "Football in a Soccer World" by Wisewire • "Robert Capa and Photography of Violence" by Wisewire • "Interact with Tact " by the Federal Trade Commission • "Officer Robot Reporting for Duty" by Wisewire • "Getting Your Shots" by Kids.gov • 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.4.6 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

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 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

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 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