These Google Slides are perfect for teaching Vocabulary – Connectives and Transitions. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Google Slides students will be able to: Recognise the meaning of connectives and transitions based on their usage. Classify the connectives and transitions based on their functions. Use connectives and transitions to join clauses or sentence elements. Use connectives and transitions to bring structure and clarity to writing. Use error identification strategy to find the correct use of connectives and transitions. Create sentences with connectives and transitions to convey specific meanings and add variety to writing. Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Reading Comprehension – Comparing Winter Poems and Reading Poetry. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based lesson students will be able to: Compare and contrast the two poems based on the poet’s description of winter and snow. Provide an objective summary of the meanings of poems. Use textual clues to infer the central idea including its relationship to the setting and characters of the poems. Use specified criteria to find poetry elements of the poems for poem analysis. Use PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to analyse the poet’s use of figurative language in the poems. Write PEEL (Point-Evidence-Explain-Link) paragraphs about the use of figurative language in the poems. Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

A unit set of worksheets with answers on direct and indirect speech with 6 sessions on teaching and learning based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: ROVING REPORTER: In your groups you will be recreating a TV news broadcast for event of the day, week, month or year like school assembly, teacher’s day, world peace day, literacy day, children’s day, environment day, world earth’s day, world book day or … EXERCISE 2: Identify the structure of the sentences when verbs are in the direct and indirect speech. EXERCISE 3: Answer these questions to test your understanding of the key terms used to understand direct and indirect speech. EXERCISE 4: Give examples to show how the adverbs of nearness in direct speech change into those of distance in indirect. Give examples to show the changes in modal verbs from direct speech to indirect. EXERCISE 5: Answer these questions to test your understanding of the changes seen in adverbs when converting direct into indirect speech. EXERCISE 6: Answer these questions to test your understanding of the changes seen in modal verbs when converting direct into indirect speech. EXERCISE 7: Give examples to show how the pronouns in direct speech change when in indirect. EXERCISE 8: Answer these questions to test your understanding of the changes seen in pronouns when converting direct into indirect speech. EXERCISE 9: Give examples for the rules followed in changing functional sentences from direct to indirect speech. Scaffolding Notes 6: Rules for Converting Functional Sentences from Direct to Indirect Speech EXERCSIE 10: Apply the rules of reported speech and verbalise the following visuals into direct and indirect speech. EXERCISE 11: Choose the one alternative which best expresses the given sentences in either direct or indirect speech. EXERCISE 12: Attempt the quiz to test your understanding of the rules followed for converting functional sentences from direct to indirect speech. EXERCISE 13: Give examples to show the tense changes from direct speech into indirect. EXERCISE 14: Answer these questions to test your understanding of the changes seen in tenses when converting direct into indirect speech. EXERCISE 15: Evaluate the correct use of punctuation in direct and indirect speech – Part 1. EXERCISE 16: Evaluate the correct use of punctuation in direct and indirect speech – Part 2. EXERCISE 17: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue to develop experiences, events and characters. EXERCISE 18: Convert the following statements into indirect speech. EXERCISE 19: Punctuate the following to put them in direct speech. EXERCISE 20: Convert ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ type questions to indirect speech. EXERCISE 21: Choose - enquired, wondered, asked, told or said - to convert the following dialogues to indirect speech. EXERCISE 22: Convert the following ‘WH’ questions to indirect speech. EXERCISE 23: Write the following dialogues in direct speech and then complete the sentences to put them in indirect.

This compact review of Verbals for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement. After studying these Scaffolding Notes students will be able to: Match the terms associated with verbals with their meanings. Consider the definitions and functions of verbals to identify the signs that exemplify the verbals in the given text. Provide finite verbs to the given actions and convert them to non-finite verbs (verbals) – gerund, participle and infinitive. Identify the functions of verbals in particular sentences. Verify and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers and inappropriate use of verbals. Use verbals to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing. This download includes: SN 1: Vocabulary Overview SN 2: Verbal Types SN 3: Functions of Verbal Types SN 4: Structure of Verbals SN 5: Verbals Rubrics Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Moods of Verbs - Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, Subjunctive. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Recall the meaning of the terms associated with verb moods. Consider the functions of verb moods to identify the signs that exemplify the verb forms in the given text. Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood. Investigate and identify the mood of the given verb. Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in verb moods. Create their own sentences showing the mood of the verb. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the TERMS (1-7) with their MEANINGS (A-G). EXERCISE 2: Watch the video - Verbs: Moods - to identify the following: verb moods expressed in the visuals; meaning of the verb moods; verb forms used by the verb moods; and an example each for verb moods. EXERCISE 3: Consider the functions of verb moods to identify the signs that exemplify the verb forms in the given text. EXERCISE 4: Compare and contrast conditional and subjunctive moods. EXERCSIE 5: Identify the change in verb forms from normal verb forms to subjunctive verb forms in the given text. EXERCISE 6: Interpret and verbalise pictures of verb moods based on the verb tense denoted and pronouns given. EXERCISE 7: Test your knowledge of verb moods. EXERCISE 8: Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood. EXERCISE 9: Investigate and identify the mood of the given verb. EXERCISE 10: Test your knowledge of subjunctive mood. EXERCISE 11: Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in verb moods. EXERCISE 12: Create your own sentences showing the mood of the verb. EXERCISE 13: Attempt any one of the tasks to create your own sentences showing the mood of the verb. RUBRICS: Moods of Verbs Rubrics EXERCISE 14: Decide if the verbs are indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional or subjunctive. EXERCISE 15: Read the following passage. Pay attention to verb moods. Decide if the verbs are indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional or subjunctive.

These Google Slides are perfect for teaching Modal Verbs – can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, have to, will and would. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Recall and list the modal verb types with their positions. Identify the modal verbs from a given text and say what they express. Form and use modal verbs to express ability, possibility, advice, obligation and request. Form and use modal verbs to convey various conditions. Recognise and correct inappropriate use of modal verbs in writing. Produce well-written sentences using modal verbs in correct positions. Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment More Vocabulary Resources by the same Author: Idioms Modal Verbs Determiners Imperative Verbs Conditionals Synonyms and Antonyms Articles (a, an, the) Compound Words Connectives and Transitions

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Sentence Structure – Conditional Sentences – Zero, First, Second, Third and Mixed. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Match the terms associated with conditionals with their meanings. Consider the usage and formation to identify the verbs that exemplify the conditionals in the given text. Form and use conditionals to achieve particular effects. Illustrate the structure of conditionals relating them to condition and results with tenses. Identify the common mistakes made by beginners in the use of conditionals in writing. Produce well-written conditional sentences keeping in mind the formation and usage to express probability, possibility and hypothesis. Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment More Sentence Structure Resources by the same Author: Simple Sentence Structure Compound Sentence Structure Complex Sentence Structure Compound-Complex Sentence Structure Sentence Kinds by Structure Sentence Kinds by Function Cumulative Sentences Sentence Word Order Conditional Sentences

These Worksheets are perfect for teaching Spelling - Irregular Spellings and Silent Letters. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Provide an example each for the rules of words with irregular rules. Provide an example each for the rules of the words with silent letters. Apply spelling rules to add –ed or –ing to words ending in ‘-fer‘; and use words with “Y” that sound like “I”. Analyse the given text to identify the use of words with silent letters in writing. Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘CH’, ‘SC’, ‘EI’, ‘EIGH‘, ‘EY‘, ‘OU’ and ‘OUGH‘ in writing. Create new word patterns with words ending in –fer; words with silent letters; and words spelt ‘CH’, ‘SC’, ‘EI’, ‘EIGH‘, ‘EY‘, ‘OU’ and‘OUGH‘. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Provide an example each for the spelling rules to go with the description of them. Use the given root words. EXERCISE 2: Provide an example each for the spelling rules to go with the description and sound associated with them. Use the words in the box. EXERCISE 3: Provide an example each for words with silent letter/s to go with the description of them. Use the words given in the box. EXERCISE 4: Identify the odd ones out. EXERCISE 5: Apply spelling rules to add –ed or –ing to words ending in '-fer‘. EXERCISE 6: Apply spelling rules to use words with “Y” that sound like “I”. EXERCISE 7: Analyse the given text to identify the use of words with silent letters in writing. EXERCISE 8: Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘CH‘ in writing. EXERCISE 9: Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘SC‘ in writing. EXERCISE 10: Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘SC‘ with their appropriate sound in writing. EXERCISE 11: Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘EI’, ‘EIGH’ and ‘EY‘ in writing. EXERCISE 12: Assess the accurate use of words spelt ‘OU’ and ‘OUGH‘ in writing. EXERCISE 13: Create new word patterns with words ending in –fer; words with silent letters; and words spelt ‘CH’, ‘SC’, ‘EI’, ‘EIGH‘, ‘EY‘, ‘OU’ and ‘OUGH‘.

These Worksheets with an Answer Key perfect for teaching Standard English Conventions – Sentence Structure, Usage Practices and Punctuation. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Identify and solve the common errors made using double negatives and formal or informal structure. Identify and solve common errors made using punctuation to clarify meaning; and analyse the given text to demonstrate the accurate usage of homophones, homographs, homonyms and relative pronouns. Identify inappropriate shifts in verb tenses, verb moods, verb voices, grammatical cases, person, number and find solutions to rectify the errors. Exercise error identification to ensure pronoun clarity; distinction between determiners, contractions and adverbs; subject-verb agreement; related noun agreement and logical comparison. Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognising and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. Revise sentence fragments, run-on sentences, parallel structure, coordination and subordination to create grammatically complete sentences. This download includes activities on: Double Negatives and Formal and Informal Structure Homophones vs Homographs vs Homonyms Frequently Confused Relative Pronouns End Punctuation and Unnecessary Punctuation Common Punctuation Errors Shifts in Tense, Mood, Voice, Person, Number and Case Distinction between determiners, contractions and adverbs. Pronoun Clarity Related Noun Agreement, Subject-verb Agreement and Logical Comparison Misplaced Modifiers Dangling Modifiers Sentence Fragments Run-on Sentences Coordination vs Subordination Grammatical Parallelism Standard English Conventions Rubrics.

These Worksheets with an Answer Key perfect for teaching Standard English Conventions – Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, Coordination, Subordination and Grammatical Parallelism. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Review the ambiguity sentence fragments and run-on sentences create while writing. Review the common mistakes writers make due to flawed coordination and subordination. Identify the grammatical structure of the given text to check if it satisfies parallelism. Exercise error identification to revise sentence fragments and run-on sentences. Exercise error identification to correct coordination-, subordination- and parallelism flaws. Create grammatically complete sentences ensuring clear sentence structure. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Review the ambiguity the sentence fragments create and provide a revised rewrite to the given text. EXERCISE 2: Review the errors in conventions the run-on sentences create and provide a revised rewrite to the given text. EXERCISE 3: Review the common mistakes beginners make because of flawed coordination and subordination and provide a revised rewrite to the given text. EXERCISE 4: Review the flawed parallelism in the given text and provide a revised rewrite. EXERCISE 5: Identify the grammatical structure of the given text to check if it satisfies parallelism. EXERCISE 6: Exercise error identification to revise sentence fragments. EXERCISE 7: Exercise error identification to revise run-on sentences. EXERCISE 8: Exercise error identification to correct coordination flaws. EXERCISE 9: Exercise error identification to correct subordination flaws. EXERCISE 10: Exercise error identification to correct parallelism flaws. EXERCISE 11: Create grammatically complete sentences ensuring clear sentence structure.

This Unit Plan is perfect for teaching Sensory Imagery – Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory and Tactile. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Identify the correct definition of imagery types – visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile. Examine word-pictures used as imagery in a given text. Show examples of writing that allow readers to visualise, hear, touch, taste or smell in their imagination. Interpret word-images sensory imagery creates in a text and explain the author’s purpose in using it. Evaluate author’s use of imagery to create word images in a text. Use sensory imagery to create vivid descriptions and word images in writing. Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

This compact review of Sensory Imagery for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory and Tactile Imagery. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement. After going through this information students will be able to: Identify the correct definition of imagery types – visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile. Examine word-pictures used as imagery in a given text. Show examples of writing that allow readers to visualise, hear, touch, taste or smell in their imagination. Interpret word-images sensory imagery creates in a text and explain the author’s purpose in using it. Evaluate author’s use of imagery to create word images in a text. Use sensory imagery to create vivid descriptions and word images in writing. This download includes: SN 1: Imagery Types SN 2: Sensory Imagery Images SN 3: Sensory Imagery Examples SN 4: Sensory Imagery Rubrics SN 5: Sensory Imagery Vocabulary Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

These Google Slides are perfect for teaching Figurative Language - Oxymoron. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Define oxymoron with examples. State the similarities and the differences between oxymoron, paradox and irony. Examine the examples of oxymoron to identify what reference they make. Interpret a given text and identify the examples of oxymoron and say what is oxymoronic in them. Evaluate a text and explain how oxymoron has impact on the reader. Use oxymoron to make writing poetic expressive, creative and concise. Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

This compact review of Simile for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Figurative Language. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement. After studying this information students will be able to: Define and identify similes. State the similarities and the differences between simile and metaphor. Identify what reference similes make. Identify the use of ‘like’ and ‘as’ to form similes. Identify the use of adjectives to complete similes. Use simile to make writing figurative, descriptive, creative and entertaining. This download includes: SN 1: Simile Details SN 2: Simile vs Metaphor SN 3: Simile Types SN 4: Simile Patterns SN 5: Simile Rubrics SN 6: Simile in Advertisements SN 7: Simile Examples Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment

This compact review of Noun or Nominal Clause for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Clauses. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement. After studying this information students will be able to: Define clauses and their components. Explain the role of interrogative pronouns or adverbs and expletives in forming noun clauses. Determine the properties of noun clauses as used in sentences. Identify the noun clauses functioning as nouns in sentences. Exercise error identification to ensure that noun clauses are used correctly in writing. Use noun clauses to vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest and style. This download includes: SN 1: Vocabulary Overview SN 2: Components of Noun Clauses SN 3: Noun Clauses Connectors SN 4: Properties of Noun Clauses SN 5: Comparison between Noun, Noun Phrase and Noun Clause SN 6: Functions of Noun Clauses SN 7: Noun Clauses as Expressions of Urgency SN 8: Noun Clause Rubrics

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Clauses - Adverbial Clause or Adverb Clause. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Define a clause and its components. List the properties of adverbial clauses with examples. List the adverbial clause types with examples. Identify the adverbial clauses functioning as adverbs in writing. Exercise error identification to ensure that adverbial clauses are placed correctly and they are not dangling. Use adverbial clauses in writing to vary sentence structure. Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom: To challenge early finishers For effective tutoring As ESL stations and sub tubs As holiday work and homework For small group collaborations For an end of unit assessments For reinforcement and enrichment