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Wisewire is a marketplace for sharing, creating, exchanging and purchasing high-quality learning resources. We’ve added a selection of our premium resources to TES!
Sign up free on our site to take full advantage of our powerful assignment platform for creating and delivering computer-based assessments to your classroom.
Winner of EDDIE Awards (2016); Tech & Learning Magazine Awards of Excellence (2016)
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 interpret complicated expressions by viewing one or more of their parts as a single entity with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 1 true or false question
• 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 RI.8.3 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.
This product includes:
• 4 multiple choice questions
• 1 matching question
• "America’s Women Veterans" by the Department of Veterans Affairs
• "Currency in the United States of America" by Wisewire
• "Is a Sloth Really Slothful?" by Wisewire
• 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. Save 25% with this bundle! 9 content-rich multimedia lessons integrate original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standards.
The Student Editions include:
• Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts
• Links to practice quizzes or activities
• 9 assessments that include 40 multiple choice, 1 matching, and 5 sorting questions
• Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards
• Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading
• Excerpts from several high-quality texts, including:
- “Robin Hood” J. Walker McSpadden
- “Paul Revere’s Ride” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “O Captain! My Captain!” Walt Whitman
- “A Little Princess” Frances Hodgson Burnett
- “Trifles” Susan Glaspell
- “The Importance of Being Earnest” Oscar Wilde
• Accompanying Teaching Notes files
The Teaching Notes files include:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• Links to additional resources
• Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further
• Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, 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 four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question
• Examples of how to analyze allusions in nonfiction texts
• "New York, One Month After Sandy" by Michael Byrne (FEMA employee)
• "Health Care Costs in the U.S." by Wisewire
• An excerpt from "Memo to President Richard Nixon" by Henry Kissinger
• An excerpt from "First Inaugural Address, January 20, 2001" by George W. Bush
• 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 link to practice quizzes or activities
• Definitions of key terms, such as geometric sequence and function notation
• Examples of how to apply function notation to explain how to obtain the terms in an arithmetic or geometric sequence
• Exercises that allow students to practice applying recursive function definition to find terms in a sequence
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• A review of key terminology
• Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as mishandling the first term
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 four multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as analogy
• Examples of how to make connections within a cause-and-effect text structure
• “Currency in the United States of America” by Wisewire
• “America’s Women Veterans” by the Department of Veterans Affairs
• An excerpt from “Farewell Address of 1961” by President Eisenhower
• “Is a Sloth Really Slothful?” by Wisewire
• An excerpt from “Second Inaugural Address” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 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.8.5 with this playlist. They will identify various structures and structural components used for informational texts. Students evaluate the role of particular sentences in developing and refining key concepts. 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 causal and refining
• Examples of how to identify and analyze key concepts
• An excerpt from "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas" by Chief Justice Warren
• "Currency in the United States of America" by Wisewire
• "School Uniforms Do More Harm Than Good" by Wisewire
• "The Many Benefits of School Uniforms" 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
Students explore standard RL.11-12.4 with this playlist. They will analyze how specific word choice creates lively, aesthetically pleasing text. Students will determine how word choice affects meaning or advances the 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 connotation and tone
• Examples of how to identify an author's use of personification
• 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 connotation and denotative
• Examples of how authors try to bridge the gap so that readers can understand their writing
• 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 four multiple choice questions and one fill-in-the-blank question
• Definitions of key terms, such as ellipses and dash
• Examples of how to correctly use commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate pauses and breaks in a text
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional information on how punctuation affects tone
• 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.9-10.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the 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
Assess student understanding of standard RL.8.1 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly and to draw inferences from the text.
This product includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• "Daedalus and Icarus," a Greek Myth
• An excerpt from "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• An excerpt from "Adventure II. The Red-headed League " by Arthur Conan Doyle
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RL.8.1 with this playlist. They will use textual evidence to support an analysis of a text’s explicit meaning. Students will support inferences using textual evidence. 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 five multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as explicit information and textual evidence
• Examples of how to cite textual evidence to support explicit information
• An excerpt from "Adventure II. The Red-headed League " by Arthur Conan Doyle
• “Daedalus and Icarus,” a Greek Myth
• An excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen
• An excerpt from “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 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.11-12.2 with this playlist. They will identify topics and use attention to detail to analyze how topics develop into themes. Students will work to identify and analyze two themes that build on one another. 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 five multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as topic and theme
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional discussion guide 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 determine two or more themes or 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:
• 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 RL.9-10.1 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
This product includes:
• 4 multiple choice questions
• 1 matching question
• An excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe
• An excerpt from "The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner
• An excerpt from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
• 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 use various types of phrases and clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 2 multiple choice questions
• 1 sorting question
• 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 demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing 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 analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
• An excerpt from "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare
• An excerpt from "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
• 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 the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 5 multiple choice questions
• An excerpt from "Let’s Make the Next Generation Tobacco-Free" by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• "Letter to the Editor in Support of Preserving Local Covered Bridges" by Wisewire
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
