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Browse short, student-friendly, language arts (ELA) tips aligned to Common Core State Standards for grades 6-12.

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Diagnostic Interactive lab Profile report 25 min Reading
Reading Signal Scan
RL/RI.1-9
Sample all nine reading dimensions and recommend the student’s most useful next Lab.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 10 min Writing
Make Every Word Earn Its Spot
Students identify vague or overused words, explore stronger context-specific alternatives, and revise their own writing using a built-in “banned words” scanner. The activity emphasizes precision over fancy vocabulary and helps students explain how specific word choices improve clarity, imagery, and meaning.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 1 connected tip Reading
Evidence Detective
RL/RI.1
Build a complete proof by connecting analysis, textual evidence, and reasoning.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 5 connected tips Reading
Meaning Mapper
RL/RI.2
Determine central meaning, trace its development, and build an objective summary.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 2 connected tips Reading
Development Tracker
RL/RI.3
Trace how characters, events, ideas, and relationships develop across a text.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 4 connected tips Reading
Structure Studio
RL/RI.5
Analyze how sentences, paragraphs, scenes, and sections shape a text as a whole.
Open Lab
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 9 connected tips Reading
Perspective Prism
RL/RI.6
Analyze point of view, perspective, purpose, rhetoric, and what a text emphasizes or leaves out.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 1 connected tip Reading
Media Matrix
RL/RI.7
Compare and integrate written, visual, audio, quantitative, and multimedia sources.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 3 connected tips Reading
Argument Analyzer
RI.8
Evaluate claims, reasons, evidence, reasoning quality, counterclaims, and fallacies.
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Practice Interactive lab Performance report 12 min 3 connected tips Reading
Cross-Text Connector
RL/RI.9
Compare paired texts and synthesize the insight that emerges from reading them together.
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Capstone Interactive lab Performance report 30 min Reading
Reading Skills Challenge
RL/RI.1-9
Apply multiple reading skills across longer literature, informational, and cross-text cases.
Start Challenge
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