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 complete the square in a quadratic expression to reveal the maximum or minimum value of the function it defines 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 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: • 8 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as vertex form and completing the square • Examples of how to find the minimum value of a quadratic function in standard form • 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 forgetting to halve b

Students explore standard L.8.1.B with this playlist. They will determine if a sentence is written in the active or passive voice. Students will change verbs to be in the active or passive voice. They will learn to choose active or passive voice, depending on the sentence’s purpose. 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 • Definitions of key terms, such as active voice and passive voice • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • 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.9-10.5 with this playlist. They will analyze the structure of a text to determine how an author’s ideas or claims are developed. Students will identify how and why an author structures information to present an idea or claim. 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 • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as text structure and claim • Examples of how to identify techniques and structures used to develop claims • 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, audio, or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Definitions of key terms, such as adjective and noun • Examples of correctly ordered adjectives from such texts as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum • 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: • 2 links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 5 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three matching questions • Definitions of key terms, such as superlative form and adverb • Examples of how to form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs • 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.11-12.5 with this playlist. They will learn how the specific parts of a story’s structure, such as the exposition, contribute to the overall structure. Students will learn how the specific parts of a story’s structure contribute to the meaning of the story. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 6 links to instructional videos, audio files, or texts • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as exposition and resolution • Excerpts from several texts, including "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens • 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 plot structure • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RL.11-12.3 with this playlist. They will analyze an author’s choices regarding the development of literary elements in a story. Students will learn how to determine the impact of an author’s choices on the story and the reader. Students also have the option to listen to instructional audio and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and two true or false questions • Definitions of key terms, such as general setting and plot • 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.9-10.5 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text. 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 determine two or more 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: • 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.7.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text, analyze its development over the course of the text, and to provide an objective summary of the text. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 chronological ordering question • An excerpt from "The Importance of Being Earnest " by Oscar Wilde • "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley • "A New Normal" by Wisewire • 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 describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution 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 RI.7.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan • "The Curious Life and Times of William Walker" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RI.6.1 with this playlist. They will learn how to cite explicit information in a text. Students will identify and cite inferences from a 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 three multiple choice questions and two fill-in-the-blank questions • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit and implicit • “How Expensive Are Fruits and Vegetables Anyway?” by Jane Reed Elizabeth Frazao • An excerpt from “Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987” by President Ronald Reagan • “Children eating more fruit, but fruit and vegetable intake still low” by the CDC • “Protons, Electrons, and Lemon Lights” by Wisewire • “Zoo Meals” 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

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