Students explore standard L.9-10.4.B with this playlist. They will identify patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech. Students determine how to change word forms to indicate a specific meaning. 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 • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as root and suffix • Examples of common suffixes and their meanings • 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 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 how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "The Immigrant and the Community" by Grace Abbott • An excerpt from "The Old World in the New" by Edward Alsworth Ross • 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: • 5 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as affix and root • Table with common Greek and Latin suffixes and their associated meaning and examples • 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.8.2 with this playlist. They will determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. Students provide an objective summary of the text. 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 plotting and setting • Examples of how to identify the theme • "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe • An excerpt from "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs • "Why the Sea Is Salty," a Norse Folktale • 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.8.5.A with this playlist. They will interpret figures of speech (such as verbal irony, puns, hyperbole, and synecdoche) in context. Students will work to understand the purpose of figures of speech. 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 five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as synecdoche and verbal irony • Examples of how to interpret figures of speech in context • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional information on how to teach puns, one of the most difficult literary devices for an author to incorporate in their writing • 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 four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question • Definitions of key terms, such as shift in voice and conditional mood • Examples of how to use passive and active voice to put emphasis on the action or actor in any given sentence • 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 four multiple choice questions • Examples of how to determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them • "On Women’s Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony • "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry • An excerpt from "Proclamation to the Inhabitants of California" by Commodore John D. Sloat • An excerpt from "Truman Doctrine" by President Harry S. Truman • 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.9-10.8 with this quiz. Students answer four questions that test their ability to delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text and to identify false statements and fallacious reasoning. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry • "The Four Freedoms" by President Franklin D. Roosevelt • 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' understanding of how to delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • "Declaration of Sentiments" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage • An excerpt from "Plessy v. Ferguson Dissenting Opinion" by Chief Justice John Harlan • 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 five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as idiom and personification • Examples of different types of figures of speech • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional information about figurative language in poetry • 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: • 12 links to instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as interpretation and source text • Examples of how to analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text • An excerpt from "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare • "This Is My Letter To The World" by Emily Dickinson • An excerpt from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare • 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: • 6 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 self-check assessment that includes five questions • Examples of common idioms matched with their meanings • 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: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 7 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one ordering question • Definitions of key terms, such as transition words • Examples of how to determine the type of relationship between ideas or sentences • 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.5.3.A with this playlist. They will learn how to expand, combine, and reduce sentences. Students will practice adding more detail and description to expand simple sentences. 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 • 6 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 how authors introduce, illustrate, and elaborate on ideas • 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 • 7 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as context clues • Examples of comparisons as context clues • 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.5.5.A with this playlist. They will learn how to identify similes and metaphors. Students will interpret similes and metaphors in context. 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 • 4 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as figurative language and context clues • Examples of figurative language in poetry • “Prime” by Amy Lowell • 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: • 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.4.5 with this playlist. They will learn how to refer to the structural elements of poems and drama when writing or speaking about a text. Students explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose. 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as prose and drama • 1 assessment consisting of three multiple choice questions, one fill-in-the-blank question, and one matching question • Example texts with descriptions of the structural elements highlighted and discussed • An excerpt from “A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia” by G. A. Henty • An excerpt from “Dr. Hardhack’s Prescription” by K. McDowell Rice • “My Love Ship” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox • An excerpt from “The Boor” by Anton Chekhov • “The Ecchoing Green” by William Blake • 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