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Students explore standard RL.4.6 with this playlist. They will compare and contrast the points of view in different stories. Students will distinguish between first- and third-person narrations. 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 one multiple choice question, two fill-in-the-blank questions, and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as narrator and point of view
• Examples of different points of view
• "The First Voyage of Sinbad" by Logan Marshall
• An excerpt from "Leif and His New Land" by Jennie Hall
• "The Witness" by Wisewire
• An excerpt from "The Darning Needle" by Hans Christian Andersen
• 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.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
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
• Definitions of key terms, such as allusions and context clues
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Examples of how to determine the meaning of a word based on how it refers to mythology
• "How the Camel Got His Hump" by Rudyard Kipling
• "If You Were Coming in the Fall" by Emily Dickinson
• "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Grimm Brothers
• An excerpt from "The Lost Prince" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 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.4.3 with this playlist. They will learn how to understand how the characters, setting, and events in a story can help the reader understand a text. Students will draw on specific details in a text to help describe a story, such as characters’ thoughts, words, and actions. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities.
This product includes:
• 4 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one matching question
• Definitions of key terms, such as drama and mood
• “Dreams of the Mole People” by Wisewire
• An excerpt from “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault
• An excerpt from “Hansel and Gretel” by the Grimm Brothers
• “Ronnie and the Roller Coaster” by Wisewire
• An excerpt from “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 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
• Differentiation ideas to help all of your students master the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
Students explore standard RL.4.2 with this playlist. They will determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem using details in the text. Students look at examples of stories and ask questions to help determine the theme. 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 theme and inference
• An excerpt from "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• "The Tiger" by William Blake
• An excerpt from "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop
• An excerpt from "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov
• An excerpt from "The Mischievous Dog" by Aesop
• An excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel" by the Grimm Brothers
• 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.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
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:
• 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
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
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:
• 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.5.3.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. Save 20% with this mini-bundle! 4 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
• 4 assessments that include 17 multiple choice, 1 fill-in-the-blank, and 2 matching 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, such as:
- “Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check” by the FDA
- “Pathfinders of the West” by A. C. Laut
- “The Journals of Lewis and Clark” by Meriwether Lewis
- “How Expensive Are Fruits and Vegetables Anyway?” by Jane Reed and Elizabeth Frazao
• 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 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
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 modal auxiliaries and auxiliary verbs
• Charts that provide examples of different conditions that modal auxiliaries create
• 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.3.6 with this playlist. They will use words and phrases that describe relationships of time and space. Students will look more closely at temporal words and phrases. 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
• 4 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as spatial and temporal
• 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:
• 1 link to instructional videos or texts
• 4 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one sorting question
• Definitions of key terms, such as synonym and adjective
• Examples of how to use context clues to make connections
• An accompanying Teaching Notes file
The Teaching Notes file includes:
• Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard
• An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels
Students explore standard L.3.5.C with this playlist. They will learn how to distinguish between words with similar meanings. Students will organize words according to their shades of 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
• 2 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as synonyms and thesaurus
• Examples of how to organize words by their shades of meaning
• 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.3.5.A with this playlist. They will determine the meaning of nonliteral and literal phrases in context. Students will be able to tell the difference between literal and nonliteral phrases. 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
• 3 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes one multiple choice question and two matching questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as literal meaning and nonliteral meaning
• 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
• 3 links to practice quizzes or activities
• 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions
• Definitions of key terms, such as prefix and suffix
• Examples of how to find the root in a word with affixes
• 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
