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 five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as structure • Examples of how writers use the structure of a story to communicate a theme • 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 three multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as conventions of genre and theme • Examples of how to determine genres and their conventions • 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.7.4 with this playlist. They will identify different types of figurative language. Students will learn how to determine the meaning of figurative language in a text. 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 hyperbole and idiom • Excerpts from several texts, including “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • 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 on certain parts of the standard, such as indirect character traits • 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 or texts • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as adaptation and script • Examples of how texts are reinterpreted into films • 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.7.1 with this playlist. They will learn how to cite textual evidence to support analysis of inferences drawn from a literary text. 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 two multiple choice questions and one sorting question • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and textual evidence • Examples of how to match textual evidence with inferences • 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 resolution and exposition • Examples of how to explain the series of events that make up the plot of a story or drama, including the exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution • 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 resources • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.7.1 with this playlist. They will cite textual evidence to support analysis of inferences drawn from an informational text. Students look at examples of authors’ development of dialogue and incidents and are guided through identifying key details using various strategies. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 3 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 and cite • Examples of how to determine if information is explicit, implicit, or both • 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.7.7 with this playlist. They will explain how adaptations add to or change the original story. Students will identify special techniques used in different versions of a story. 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 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as medium and adaptations • Examples of how to compare and contrast the written version of Pygmalion to a film and dramatic reading version • 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 L.8.1.B with this playlist. They will determine if a sentence is written in the active or passive voice. Students will change verbs to be in the active or passive voice. They will learn to choose active or passive voice, depending on the sentence’s purpose. 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 • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as active voice and passive voice • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • 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.9-10.5 with this playlist. They will analyze the structure of a text to determine how an author’s ideas or claims are developed. Students will identify how and why an author structures information to present an idea or claim. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as text structure and claim • Examples of how to identify techniques and structures used to develop claims • 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, audio, 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 adjective and noun • Examples of correctly ordered adjectives from such texts as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum • 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: • 2 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 5 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three matching questions • Definitions of key terms, such as superlative form and adverb • Examples of how to form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs • 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.11-12.5 with this playlist. They will learn how the specific parts of a story’s structure, such as the exposition, contribute to the overall structure. Students will learn how the specific parts of a story’s structure contribute to the meaning of the story. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 6 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as exposition and resolution • Excerpts from several texts, including "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens • 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 on certain parts of the standard, such as plot structure • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RL.11-12.3 with this playlist. They will analyze an author’s choices regarding the development of literary elements in a story. Students will learn how to determine the impact of an author’s choices on the story and the reader. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and two true or false questions • Definitions of key terms, such as general setting and plot • 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

Assess student understanding of standard RI.9-10.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • 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 two or more 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: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 fill-in-the-blank question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text, analyze its development over the course of the text, and to provide an objective summary of the text. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 chronological ordering question • An excerpt from "The Importance of Being Earnest " by Oscar Wilde • "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley • "A New Normal" by Wisewire • 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 describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution 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 RI.7.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan • "The Curious Life and Times of William Walker" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.6.1 with this playlist. They will learn how to cite explicit information in a text. Students will identify and cite inferences from a text. 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 three multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and implicit • “How Expensive Are Fruits and Vegetables Anyway?” by Jane Reed Elizabeth Frazao • An excerpt from “Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987” by President Ronald Reagan • “Children eating more fruit, but fruit and vegetable intake still low” by the CDC • “Protons, Electrons, and Lemon Lights” by Wisewire • “Zoo Meals” 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