Embark on a journey of comprehensive writing mastery with this Cambridge IGCSE writing guide, designed to lead students through the intricacies of crafting informative magazine articles. This resource adopts a scaffolded approach, aligning seamlessly with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing. It encompasses diverse objectives and success criteria, covering Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating within the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements. Objectives: Recall and identify key information, comprehend implicit meanings, apply gained knowledge, analyse facts and opinions, evaluate effectiveness, and synthesise information—these are the objectives that guide students toward proficiency in writing informative magazine articles. Each objective corresponds to a specific cognitive domain, ensuring a well-rounded development of writing skills aligned with Cambridge IGCSE standards. Scaffolders: This resource provides essential scaffolders to support students in their writing journey. A focused writing prompt directs attention to the article’s content, while a structured sentence frame aids in organising thoughts and maintaining coherence within the article.

Embark on a journey to master the Cambridge IGCSE writing curriculum with this comprehensive guide tailored for students. This resource provides a scaffolded approach to skillfully navigate the intricacies of writing a magazine report, aligning seamlessly with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing. It encompasses a spectrum of objectives and success criteria spanning Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating, ensuring a holistic learning experience. Objectives: This writing guide sets clear objectives, guiding students through each cognitive domain. From recalling and identifying key information to synthesising original, engaging, and coherent newspaper reports, the resource covers a range of skills. Students will comprehend implicit meanings, analyse facts and opinions, and evaluate the effectiveness of ideas, all contributing to the creation of well-rounded and well-supported newspaper reports. Scaffolders: Facilitating the learning process, the resource incorporates effective scaffolders. A focused writing prompt ensures attention to the report’s content, while a structured sentence frame guides students in organising their thoughts and ensuring a logical report structure.

Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource provides a comprehensive guide to mastering evaluative speech writing. It covers a range of objectives and success criteria across multiple cognitive domains, ensuring a holistic approach to skill development. Objectives: The resource sets clear objectives, guiding students to recall key concepts, comprehend explicit and implicit meanings, apply their understanding, analyze speeches, evaluate ideas, and finally, create original evaluative speeches. These objectives align with the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements, fostering a well-rounded skill set. Scaffolders: Offering a scaffolded approach, this resource serves as a supportive framework, helping students navigate the complexities of evaluative speech writing. It acts as a valuable tool for mastering the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements, promoting a step-by-step understanding.

The Persuasive Speech Writing Toolkit offers a scaffolded approach, guiding students through the intricacies of crafting compelling speeches covering Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource encompasses a wide range of objectives and success criteria across multiple cognitive domains. It addresses Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience. This toolkit is designed to help students: Recall key elements of persuasive speech writing. Demonstrate comprehension of explicit and implicit meanings in persuasive texts. Apply knowledge by creating introductory and concluding paragraphs. Analyse persuasive speeches, evaluating their effectiveness. Evaluate speeches based on specified criteria. Create persuasive speeches that effectively articulate thoughts. Scaffolders: Providing essential support, the toolkit includes writing prompts and sentence frames, offering a scaffolded approach to guide students at each stage of persuasive speech writing.

Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, “Journal Entry” is a resource designed to help students excel in the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. It covers a spectrum of objectives and success criteria, focusing on Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating and Creating. After completing this lesson, students will be able to: Recall and list key details and facts from a given text in a journal entry. Demonstrate an understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes conveyed in the text through a journal entry. Apply the knowledge gained from the text to real-world scenarios or personal experiences in a journal entry. Analyse facts, ideas and opinions from the text, demonstrating a deep understanding of the journal entry. Evaluate the text critically, assessing its strengths and weaknesses in journal entries. Create an original response in a journal entry, synthesising information from the text and expressing personal thoughts. This download includes: The resource provides a scaffolded approach, ensuring students master the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements.

Embark on a journey of comprehensive learning with this resource, “Evaluative Letter Mastery,” meticulously designed to cater to the diverse needs of students following the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource encompasses a range of objectives and success criteria across multiple cognitive domains, covering Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating. After completing this lesson, students will be able to: Recall key components of evaluative letter writing, including the structure, format, and key language features. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the explicit and implicit meanings of evaluative letter writing. Apply their understanding of evaluative letter writing to create a sample letter, integrating explicit and implicit meanings. Analyse facts, ideas and opinions presented in evaluative letter writing, using evidence from the text. Evaluate ideas and opinions, both explicit and implicit, in evaluative letter writing. Synthesise understanding of evaluative letter writing to create an original, well-developed and sophisticated response. This resource provides a scaffolded approach to guide students through the process of writing an evaluative letter, promoting mastery of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements.

This comprehensive resource is designed to assist students in the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum in honing their skills in crafting impactful and informative speeches. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource encompasses a range of objectives and success criteria across multiple cognitive domains. The resource is meticulously structured based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, covering Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating and Creating. After completing these lessons, students will be able to: Recall key information from a text and incorporate it into an informative speech. Comprehend both explicit and implicit meanings in a text and demonstrate understanding in informative speech. Apply the acquired knowledge to construct a well-supported, informative speech. Analyse facts, ideas and opinions to enhance the depth of informative speech. Evaluate the effectiveness of informative speech and make informed judgements. Synthesise information and create an informative speech that effectively communicates ideas. This resource provides a scaffolded approach to guide students through the process of writing an informative speech, promoting critical thinking, effective communication, and mastery of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements.

Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this comprehensive resource guides students through various cognitive domains, fostering skills in Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. With a focus on informative letter writing, it ensures the holistic development of language skills required for success in the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. Objectives: This resource sets clear objectives that progress through Bloom’s Taxonomy, from recalling key information to synthesising ideas into a well-crafted informative letter. Students will develop the ability to comprehend, apply, analyse, evaluate, and synthesise information effectively, aligning with the rigour of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. Scaffolders: To support student learning, the resource offers a scaffolded approach, helping students navigate the complexities of informative letter writing. This scaffolding is designed to align with the specific requirements of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum, ensuring that students master the necessary skills step by step.

Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Reading, this resource is meticulously designed to address a variety of objectives and success criteria across cognitive domains, from Remembering to Creating. This resource adopts a scaffolded approach, guiding students through the intricacies of reading and ensuring mastery of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements. Objectives: The resource sets clear objectives to help students progressively develop their reading skills. These objectives include recalling explicit information, comprehending both explicit and implicit meanings, applying understanding to new contexts, analysing writer techniques, evaluating content and effectiveness, and synthesising information to generate new ideas.

This is a comprehensive resource designed to assist students in mastering interview writing within the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource covers objectives and success criteria across various cognitive domains, including Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. After completing this lesson, students will gain the ability to recall key interview concepts, comprehend explicit and implicit meanings, apply knowledge to create purposeful interview content, analyse and develop ideas within interviews, evaluate writing quality, and ultimately create well-crafted, expressive interviews. A writing prompt and sentence frame are provided to guide students through the process of crafting responses to interview questions, ensuring alignment with Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements.

Unlock the power of language with this comprehensive resource designed for students in the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum, focusing on explaining how writers use language to convey meaning and create effects in texts. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource offers a scaffolded approach to guide students through various cognitive domains, ensuring mastery across Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating and Creating. After completing this lesson, students will be able to: Recall and recognise explicit and implicit meanings in a given text. Comprehend the explicit and implicit meanings within a text. Apply understanding of language elements to new contexts. Analyse how writers achieve effects and influence readers through language. Evaluate the effectiveness of language choices in achieving specific effects. Create own expressive use of language elements. This Download Includes: Lesson Starters: This resource engages students with captivating lesson starters, such as matching imagery types, word classes, figurative language and language techniques with examples. Writing Prompt and Sentence Frame: The resource also provides a scaffolded approach to guide students through the process of writing, ensuring mastery of the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements.

Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, this resource is a comprehensive guide designed to enhance students’ skills in crafting effective complaint letters. It covers a spectrum of cognitive domains, fostering development in Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. Objectives: The resource sets clear objectives for students, guiding them to recall key information, comprehend explicit and implicit meanings, apply acquired knowledge, analyse facts, evaluate effectiveness, and synthesise information to create well-structured complaint letters. This ensures a holistic approach to letter writing aligned with the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. Scaffolders: Recognising the challenges students may face, this resource provides a scaffolded approach to writing complaint letters, aligning with the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum requirements. It guides students through the process, promoting mastery step-by-step.

This resource includes exercises on: Identifying what’s special in the visuals Explaining synecdoche and metonymy examples with reference Determining synecdoche and metonymy examples Demonstrating synecdoche vs metonymy knowledge in writing Matching part with the whole and vice versa Identifying the substitute that is used to stand for Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the vocabulary, reading, language, and writing skills of the learners. 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

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Punctuation – Hyphens and Dashes. 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. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-5) with their meanings (A-E). EXERCISE 2: Consider the functions of hyphens and dashes to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text. EXERCISE 3: Watch the video – Hyphens and Dashes – to complete the following table with required details for hyphens and dashes. EXERCISE 4: Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast hyphens and dashes to find their differences and the similarities. EXERCISE 5: Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast em dash and en dash to find the differences and the similarities. EXERCISE 6: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of hyphens and dashes. Tick all the correct answers. EXERCISE 7: Use hyphens to join two or more words to create new meaning; and to create compound words with prefixes and suffixes. EXERCISE 8: Use hyphens to clarify meaning; to write fractions or numbers; and to indicate a missing element. EXERCISE 9: Use dashes to introduce an explanation or clarification; to replace semicolons; and to enclose extra information. EXERCISE 10: Use dashes to replace a pair of commas; to replace a pair of brackets; and to replace ellipsis. EXERCISE 11: Use hyphens and dashes to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing. EXERCISE 12: Give an example each for the given dash rules. EXERCISE 13: Give 14 examples for hyphenated compound words. Give 8 examples for suspended compound words. EXERCISE 14: Identify the hyphen rules used in the following sentences. EXERCISE 15: Identify the hyphen rules used in the following prefixes and suffixes. EXERCISE 16: Supply dashes or hyphens wherever necessary. Replace other punctuation marks with either hyphens or dashes. EXERCISE 17: Frame compound words using hyphens with the following prefixes and suffixes. EXERCISE 18: Choose the sentences that contain a compound adjective, use hyphens to form those possible.

A package of 10 worksheets with answers on listening to respond. This resource includes: Finding out from the partner what makes a good listener. Listening to riddles to respond. Imagining to listen and write. Demonstrating listening mastery in writing. Listening to the podcasts to respond. 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 Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Phrases – Prepositional Phrases. 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. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the WORDS with their MEANING. EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Prepositional Phrases – to answer the following questions with examples. State the prepositional phrase patterns with examples. List the functions of prepositional phrases with examples. Expand – I watched the rain fall – using prepositional phrases. Explain - prepositional phrases cannot be the subject of a sentence – with examples. EXERCISE 3: Take the following quiz to demonstrate your understanding of prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 4: Review the properties of prepositional phrases and identify the elements from the examples. EXERCISE 5: Classify prepositional phrases based on their properties. EXERCISE 6: Classify prepositional phrases based on the questions they answer. EXERCISE 7: Classify prepositional phrases based on the purpose for which they are used. EXERCISE 8: Review the functions of prepositional phrases and identify the elements from the examples. EXERCISE 9: Identify the functions of prepositional phrases in sentence patterns. EXERCISE 10: Identify the prepositional phrases as used in the sentences. EXERCISE 11: Identify the prepositional phrases from the examples based on their patterns. EXERCISE 12: Identify the structure of prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 13: Identify the pattern of prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 14: Answer the given questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the placement of prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 15: Analyse the following sentences to check if inversion rule is followed correctly to place the prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 16: Review the common errors writers make due to misplaced and dangling modifiers in the following examples. EXERCISE 17: Place phrases within a sentence, recognising and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. EXERCISE 18: Exercise error identification to ensure that the prepositional phrases are not misplaced and dangling. EXERCISE 19: Name the noun, pronoun and action in the visual as indicated. Describe the noun and pronoun with adjectives and action with adverb. Expand the adjectives and adverb using prepositional phrases that are equivalent in meaning. EXERCISE 20: Create prepositional phrases based on the given patterns. EXERCISE 21: Use prepositional phrases to attempt any one of the following activity to vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest and style. EXERCISE 22: Identify the prepositional phrases. EXERCISE 23: Identify the head prepositions, prepositional phrases, state their function and say what they modify. EXERCISE 24: Underline the prepositional phrases, state what function they serve and what question they answer.

Ready to use set of worksheets with answers that present teaching and learning resources of present tense based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Use the verb “eat” to give an example each for the present tense structure. EXERCISE 2: Relate verb forms in present tense to person and number – Part 1. EXERCISE 3: Relate verb forms in present tense to person and number – Part 2. EXERCISE 4: Use the given verbs to go with the present tense form stated in order to fill in the blanks. EXERCISE 5: Select the correct option to demonstrate the conjugation and usage of verb forms. EXERCISE 6: Use the sentence stems to formulate sentences to go with the actions in the pictures and the present tense forms. EXERCISE 7: Select the correct option to determine the formulation of the verb forms in the present tense. EXERCISE 8: Analyse the functions of present tense forms with examples. EXERCISE 9: Analyse the functions of present tense forms with timeline diagrams. EXERCISE 10: Analyse the functions of tense forms in the present tense. EXERCISE 11: Select the correct option to determine the structure of the verb forms in the present tense. EXERCISE 12: Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tenses. EXERCISE 13: Demonstrate tense formulation and usage in writing. EXERCISE 14: Use your knowledge of present verb tenses to write about one of the given topics. EXERCISE 15: Fill in the blanks with correct present perfect forms. EXERCISE 16: Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with present perfect and present perfect continuous tense.

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Clauses - Noun or Nominal 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. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the terms with their meaning. EXERCISE 2: Answer the given questions to demonstrate your knowledge of noun clauses. EXERCISE 3: Watch the video – Noun Clauses – and analyse the following examples to identify noun clauses, conjunctions, subjects, verbs, what the noun clauses function as and the substitution principle. EXERCISE 4: Identify the pronouns, adverbs and expletives used to introduce noun clauses. EXERCISE 5: Use appropriate noun clause starters in sentences. EXERCISE 6: Review the properties of noun clauses and identify the elements from the examples. EXERCISE 7: Answer the given questions to demonstrate your understanding of the properties of noun clauses. EXERCISE 8: Name the given nouns (visuals) in sentences, then expand them to noun phrases and noun clauses that are equivalent to the nouns. EXERCISE 9: Replace nouns with noun phrases or noun clauses. EXERCISE 10: Fill in the blanks with appropriate noun clauses. EXERCISE 11: Identify the noun clauses in the sentences based on their functions. EXERCISE 12: Identify the type of noun clauses used in the sentences. EXERCISE 13: Identify the functions of noun clauses as used in the sentences. EXERCISE 14: Give examples for the type of noun clauses. EXERCISE 15: Identify the function of noun clauses. EXERCISE 16: Identify the noun clauses in the given sentences – Part 1 and 2. EXERCISE 17: Change the questions to noun clauses. EXERCISE 18: Exercise error identification to ensure that the noun clauses are used correctly in sentences. EXERCISE 19: Add noun clauses after verbs or expressions that show importance or urgency. EXERCISE 20: Write about any one of the following to demonstrate the mastery of the use of noun clauses in writing. EXERCISE 21: Identify the noun clauses, subjects and verbs/phrasal verbs. EXERCISE 22: Identify the noun clauses and state the purpose they serve. Find out the question – what and who(m) - they answer. EXERCISE 23: Split the complex sentences that contain noun clauses into two separate sentences.

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Non-Finite Verbal Phrases – Gerund Phrase, Participial Phrase and Infinitive Phrase. 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 gerund, participle, infinitive and dependents – complements, modifiers. Identify the difference between finite verbal phrases and non-finite verbal phrases. Determine the purpose for which gerund phrases, participial phrases and infinitive phrases are used. Identify the patterns of gerund phrases, participial phrases and infinitive phrases. Exercise error identification to ensure that the modifiers in verbal phrases are placed correctly and are not dangling. Use verbal phrases to vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest and style. 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

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Punctuation – Colons and Semicolons. 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. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Consider the functions of colons and semicolons to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text. EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – How to Apply Colons and Semi-colons – to complete the following table with required details for colons and semicolons. EXERCISE 3: Compare and contrast colons and semicolons to find similarities and differences between them. EXERCISE 4: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of colons and semicolons. EXERCISE 5: Use colons to introduce mail and email references; to separate numerical expressions; and to join a clause that explains. EXERCISE 6: Use colons to introduce a series of items in a list and to introduce a quote. EXERCISE 7: Use semicolons to separate items in a series containing internal punctuation. EXERCISE 8: Use semicolons to join two independent clauses and to precede a transition in a sentence. EXERCISE 9: Use colons and semicolons to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing. EXERCISE 10: Give an example each for the use of colons based on the rules given. EXERCISE 11: Give an example each for the use of semicolons based on the rules given. EXERCISE 12: Join each sentence pair using a semicolon. EXERCISE 13: Fill in the missing colons in the following sentences. EXERCISE 14: Re-write these sentences using a semi-colon to replace the connectives. EXERCISE 15: Re-write these sentences using a connective to replace the semi-colon.