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 or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several nonfiction texts that allow students to practice determining a central idea of a text and analyzing how it is conveyed through particular details • 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 • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to learn how to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings • Definitions of key terms, such as context clues and antonyms • 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

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 three multiple choice questions, one matching question, and one sorting question • Excerpts from several texts that allow students to analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone • Definitions of key terms, such as denotation and connotation • 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.6.9 with this playlist. They will compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another. Students examine author's purpose for writing. 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 two multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as biography and memoir • Examples of how to examine the author's purpose • "Bike to Work Day Celebrates Transportation" by Anthony Foxx • "Who Bikes to Work in America?" by Brian McKenzie • An excerpt from "Firsthand Account of the Titanic" by Elizabeth Shutes • 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 five multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several texts that allow them to practice determining a theme or central idea of a text and analyze how it is conveyed through particular details • Definitions of key terms, such as theme and dialogue • 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.6.4 with this playlist. They will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative meanings. Students will work through several examples of how to determine an author's meaning. 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 • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as personification and metaphor • 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.6.6 with this playlist. They will determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text. Students will explain how the author’s purpose is conveyed in the text. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as purpose and position • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Examples of different categories of writing and the typical reasons authors write these types of texts • 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 point of view through comparison • 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 or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as medium and quantitative • Visual examples of how diagrams help the reader make sense of the text • Excerpts that allow students to practice integrating information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue • A self-check assessment that includes two multiple choice questions and one sorting question • 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: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes six multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several nonfiction texts that allow students to trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not • Definitions of key terms, such as credible and bias • 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 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 cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 2 matching 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 analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a 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

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 trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims with this quiz. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 true/false question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.8.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand • "Free or Fugitive?" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure contributes to its meaning. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "A Dream within a Dream " by Edgar Allan Poe • "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman • An excerpt from "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.7.7 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan • An excerpt from "Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches" by President Barack Obama • An excerpt from "The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln" by Wayne Whipple • 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 integrate information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check" by the FDA • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.8.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • "1300 Perish in Wreck of the Titanic" by The San Francisco Call • "Liner Titanic Wrecked by Iceberg Passengers Transferred to Other Vessels in Mid Ocean" by Unknown (article from The Day Book) • 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 trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Sun Safety: Save Your Skin!" by the FDA • "Wildlife Photography" by Wisewire • "Zoo Meals" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.7 with this quiz.Students answer four questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version and to analyze the effects of techniques unique to each medium. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Ozymandias " by Percy Bysshe Shelley • An excerpt from "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell • 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 an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Is College for Everyone?" by Wisewire • "Letter on Thomas Jefferson" by John Adams • "Life Thrives in Scorching Deserts" by Wisewire • An excerpt from "Pathfinders of the West" by A.C. Laut • An excerpt from "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" by Merriwether Lewis • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels