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.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 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

Assess student understanding of standard L.7.1.C with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. 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 use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives 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

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 figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context 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 distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty) with this quiz. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 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: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as nuance and connotation • Examples that show students how to distinguish between denotative and connotative 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

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: • 9 links to instructional videos or texts • 4 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as negative angle and tangent • Visual examples of the limits on the domain of trigonometric functions using right-triangle geometry • Exercises that allow students to understand sign conventions for angles defined in the unit-circle • 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 having difficulty identifying specific angles and their trigonometric ratios using a unit circle • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities

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 or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases 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 solve quadratic equations by inspection, taking square roots, completing the square, the quadratic formula and factoring, as appropriate to the initial form of the equation 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.8.7 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script and evaluate the choices made by the director or actors. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels