Trend Check: Hype, Clues and Smart Choices

A sticker trend sweeps through a middle school, and students follow it from start to finish. They match trend words, find the central idea of a short passage, sort clues into what the text says, what they already know and what they can guess, highlight the pushy words in a creator's post, infer why friends join in, predict where the trend is headed, choose a safe and kind reply to a risky video dare, decode words with an online meaning and an everyday meaning, check their prediction, and finish by tapping every trend that is safe to try. Every passage, question and answer has its own read-aloud button. Built for speech-language and ELA work in grades 6-8.

• 15 scenes: 13 activities plus an opening and an ending
• Matching, multiple choice, a clue sort, a text highlight and a conveyor-belt finale
• Read-aloud buttons on every passage, question and answer
• Text hints after wrong answers, and a score at the end

• Separate what a text says, what you already know and what you can infer
• Find the central idea of a short informational passage
• Spot pressure words in a post and infer why people join a trend
• Predict what a trend will do, then check the prediction
• Use context to choose between an online and an everyday word meaning
• Turn down a risky dare and judge which trends are safe to try