Assess student understanding of standard RL.6.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An accompanying 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 L.6.2.A with this playlist. They will recognize nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in a sentence. Students will use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements. 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 • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as parenthetical element and relative adverbs • Excerpts from texts such as "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Loftin • 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 RL.7.3 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.7.8 with this playlist. They will trace and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a text. Students will assess whether the reasoning an author uses is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one true or false question • Definitions of key terms, such as reasoning and claims • Examples of how to identify and analyze claims in several texts • “Hunger In Our Schools: Breakfast Is A Crucial ‘School Supply’ for Kids In Need” by Tom Nelson • “The Curious Life and Times of William Walker” by Wisewire • “What’s For Breakfast?” 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 on certain parts of the standard, such as establishing arguments • 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 five multiple choice questions • Excerpts from several texts that allow students learn how to analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone • Definitions of key terms, such as personification and metaphor • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • 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

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: • 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 analysis and theme • Examples of themes that are popular in fantasy literature as well as myths of ancient Greece • 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 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

Students explore standard RL.8.4 with this playlist. They will analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. Students determine the connotative meaning of words and phrases. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 4 links 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 denotations and connotations • Examples of how to interpret the meaning of an author’s word choices • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Differentiated instruction activity for students who learn best through visual displays or for students who learn best by reading text accompanied by audio • 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 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

Students explore standard RL.7.2 with this playlist. They will write a theme statement. Students will explain how a theme develops over the course of a text. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio 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 and one sorting question • Definitions of key terms, such as theme • Excerpts from several texts, including "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett • 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 symbolism and allegory • 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

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 RL.6.1 with this playlist. They will use textual evidence to support an analysis of what the text says explicitly. Students will follow multiple steps to use textual evidence to support an analysis of what the text says explicitly. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and analyzing text • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • 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.7.6 with this playlist. They will analyze how an author develops a character’s point of view. Students will compare and contrast different characters’ points of view. 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 three multiple choice questions and two sorting questions • Definitions of key terms, such as first-person point of view and narrator • Excerpts from several texts, including "When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats • 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.7.3 with this playlist. They will analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or 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 interact and plot • Excerpts from several texts, including "Trifles” by Susan Glaspell • 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