JOHN’S EDU MARKET stands out for its unique share of resources and information. Teachers can use these resources to support students as they include well-formulated lesson plans, carefully designed support material, and well-planned worksheets. This platform aims at bringing "Tomorrow's lessons to today's classroom, and today's lessons to a classroom now". The Teacher-Author of this platform is an English graduate, associated with Gems Education as a Subject Leader of English.
JOHN’S EDU MARKET stands out for its unique share of resources and information. Teachers can use these resources to support students as they include well-formulated lesson plans, carefully designed support material, and well-planned worksheets. This platform aims at bringing "Tomorrow's lessons to today's classroom, and today's lessons to a classroom now". The Teacher-Author of this platform is an English graduate, associated with Gems Education as a Subject Leader of English.
A ready to use PowerPoint presentation that presents teaching and learning resources of a spelling lesson on homophones, homographs and homonyms based on New Bloom's Taxonomy.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Watch the video: What are Homophones, Homographs and Homonyms? to compare and contrast homophones, homographs and homonyms. Use sound, meaning and spelling as criteria to differentiate. Use “similar” and “different” to identify the difference.
EXERCISE 2: Match the WORD TYPES (1-3) with their DEFINITIONS (A-C).
EXERCISE 3: Identify the given set of words as homophones, homographs and homonyms.
EXERCISE 4: Look for pair of words that are homophones, homographs and homonyms to go with the pictures.
EXERCISE 5: Analyse the words “lead” and “led” in the given sentence examples.
Find their meaning as used in the sentences (MEANING).
Decide if they are used as noun or verb (PARTS OF SPEECH).
Identify if they sound similar or different (SOUND).
Say whether they are used as homophones, homographs or homonyms (WORD TYPES).
EXERCISE 6: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homophones – Part 1.
EXERCISE 7: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homophones – Part 2.
EXERCISE 8: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homographs – Part 1.
EXERCISE 9: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homographs – Part 2.
EXERCISE 10: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homonyms – Part 1.
EXERCISE 11: Analyse the sentences and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of homonyms – Part 2.
EXERCISE 12: Evaluate the sentences and identify the errors in the use of homophones, homographs and homonyms.
EXERCISE 13: Frame sentences for each of the homophones, homographs and homonyms to go with the given meanings.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the homophones used in the pair of sentences and give their meanings based on the context they are used.
EXERCISE 15: Look for homophones which have been used incorrectly then write the correct spelling.
EXERCISE 16: Complete each sentence by choosing the correct homophone.
EXERCISE 17: Choose the correct homophone.
EXERCISE 18: Read the story below. Look for homophones which have been used incorrectly. Cross them out, and write the correct spelling of the homophones which should have been used.
EXERCISE 19: Identify the homographs used in the pair of sentences and say what parts of speech is the word used as homograph. Then choose the right option that gives the meaning of homographs: A or B.
This bundle of 6 products (PowerPoint Presentations) is perfect for teaching Phrases - Noun Phrase, Verbal Phrase, Adjective Phrase, Adverb Phrase and Prepositional Phrase. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these self-grading exercises that are gamified for student engagement.
After completing these lessons, the students will be able to:
Define phrases and their components.
Classify phrases as nominal, verbal, adjectival, adverbial and prepositional.
Identify the properties and features of phrases.
Identify the pattern of phrases as used in the sentences.
Exercise error identification to ensure phrases are not misplaced and dangling.
Use phrases to vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest and style.
This bundle includes PowerPoint Presentations about:
Phrase Types: 22 Slides
Noun or Nominal Phrase: 24 Slides
Non-Finite Verbal Phrase: 28 Slides
Adjective or Adjectival Phrase: 22 Slides
Adverb or Adverbial Phrase: 25 Slides
Prepositional Phrase: 27 Slides
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This PowerPoint Presentation is 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.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
Define prepositional phrases and their components.
Classify prepositional phrases as nominal, adjectival and adverbial.
Identify the prepositional phrases that are used to show location, direction, time and manner.
Identify prepositional phrases that begin with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, phrase or clause.
Exercise error identification to ensure prepositional phrases are not misplaced and dangling.
Use prepositional phrases to describe nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Phrases – Adverb or Adverbial 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.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
Define phrases and their components.
Define adverb phrases and their components.
Identify the adverb phrases as used in the sentences.
Identify the functions of adverb phrases as used in the sentences.
Exercise error identification to ensure that the adverb phrases are not misplaced and dangling.
Use adverb 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
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Phrases - Non-Finite Verbal or Verb 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
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Phrases – Adjective or Adjectival 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.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
Define phrases and their components.
Define adjective phrases and their components.
Identify the adjective phrases as used in the sentences.
Create new adjective phrase patterns in sentences.
Exercise error identification to ensure that the adjective phrases are not misplaced and dangling.
Use adjective 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
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Phrases - Noun or Nominal 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 phrases and their components.
Define noun phrases and their components.
Determine the purpose for which noun phrases are used in sentences.
Identify the patterns of noun phrases in sentences.
Exercise error identification to ensure that the modifiers in noun phrases are placed correctly and they are not dangling.
Use noun 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
A unit lesson presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of verb types based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
List the helping and linking verb types with their functions and examples.
Describe the finite and non-finite verb types with their functions and examples.
Discover the grammatical functions of helping and linking verbs in the given sentences.
Discover the grammatical functions of finite and non-finite verbs in the given sentences.
Evaluate the right use of verb types in the given sentences.
Create new sentence patterns using verb types – helping, linking, finite and non-finite.
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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 lesson presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of noun types based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This download includes:
FLIPPED LESSON:
VIDEO – Kinds of Nouns
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING
EXERCISE 1: List the basic noun types with their functions and examples.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Basic Noun Types
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING
EXERCISE 2: List the extended noun types with their functions and examples.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Extended Noun Types
SESSION 3: APPLYING
EXERCISE 3: List irregular plural noun types with examples.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Irregular Plural Nouns
SESSION 4: ANALYSING
EXERCISE 4: Interpret and verbalise pictures of nouns referring to their type and identity.
SESSION 5: EVALUATING
EXERCISE 5: Identify the functions of nouns as used in the sentences.
SESSION 6: CREATING
EXERCISE 6: Use nouns as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, predicate nominatives and object complements.
DIFFERENTIATION
EXERCISE 7: Demonstrate the mastery of using noun types in writing.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Noun Types Rubrics
PLENARY:
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of noun types (Part 1).
EXTENSIONS:
EXERCISE 9: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of noun types (Part 2).
HOME LEARNING
EXERCISE 10: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of noun types (Part 3).
EXERCISE 11: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of noun types (Part 4).
EXERCISE 12: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of the functions of the noun types.
EXERCISE 13: Break the noun types down by the sense you use to experience each of them with examples.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the nouns in each sentence and state the noun types.
EXERCISE 15: Identify the nouns and state their identity: person, animal, place, thing or idea.
EXERCISE 16: Identify the nouns in each sentence and state the function they serve.
EXERCISE 17: Rewrite the following sentences, replacing underlined-nouns with a proper noun. Each new noun should reflect the same idea or subject as the underlined noun. You may need to change some words, such as a, an, the, delete or add adjectives.
A unit lesson presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of pronoun types based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING: Recall and list pronoun types.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING: Infer and grasp the meaning of pronoun types.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING: Apply and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of pronoun types.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING: Analyse and infer the placement of pronoun types in sentences.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING: Assess and evaluate the use of pronoun types in sentences.
SESSION 6 - CREATING: Create and compose new sentence patterns with pronoun types.
This download includes:
VOCABULARY OVERVIEW:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Pronoun Types Vocabulary
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - RECALL-LIST
EXERCISE 1: Name and define the pronoun types with examples.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Pronoun Types
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - INFER-GRASP
EXERCISE 2: Interpret and verbalise pictures of pronouns using the listed pronouns.
SESSION 3: APPLYING - APPLY-DEMONSTRATE
EXERCISE 3: Discover and ensure that pronouns are in the proper case - subjective, objective and possessive - in relation to the person, number and gender in the pronoun signs.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Pronouns in Proper Cases
SESSION 4: ANALYSING - ANALYSE-INFER
EXERCISE 4: Investigate and identify vague pronouns: ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents.
SESSION 5: EVALUATING - ASSESS-EVALUATE
EXERCISE 5: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and case.
SESSION 6: CREATING - CREATE-COMPOSE
EXERCISE 6: Produce and present well-written sentences with appropriate pronoun types.
DIFFERENTIATION
EXERCISE 7: Demonstrate the mastery of using PRONOUN TYPES in writing.
RUBRICS - Scaffolding Notes 4: Pronoun Types Rubrics
PLENARY:
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of pronoun types.
HOME LEARNING
EXERCISE 9: Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns from the box.
EXERCISE 10: Rewrite the following paragraph using pronouns.
EXERCISE 11: Identify pronouns from the following sentences and state their types.
EXERCISE 12: Identify the type of pronouns in RED from the sentences given below.
EXERCISE 13: Fill in the blanks with the type of pronoun mentioned in the brackets.
EXERCISE 14: Fill in the blanks with interrogative pronouns - what, which, who, whom, whose – as specified.
EXERCISE 15: Rewrite the following paragraph, substituting an appropriate pronoun for each italicized word or group of words.
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Grammar - Direct and Indirect Speech. 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:
List the similarities and differences between direct and indirect speech.
Identify the changes seen in adverbs, modal verbs and pronouns when converting direct into indirect speech.
Identify the structure of the sentences when the speech is direct and indirect.
Test their understanding of the changes seen in verb tenses when converting direct into indirect speech.
Use commas, inverted commas and relevant end punctuation to mark direct speech and quotations.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue to develop experiences, events and characters.
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 lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on advertisement designing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Gain understanding of the features of advertisements.
Analyse advertisements based on persuasive techniques.
Find out what makes an effective advertisement.
Plan and design an advertisement.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - What is Advertising?
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - What is Proofreading?
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Audience of the Ads
Success Criteria - Advertising Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Advertising Features
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – Online Quiz
Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Worksheet
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Plenary Placards
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1abcd/2/4
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students to design advertisement, thereby helping them to enhance their skills.
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 lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on alternate ending story writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Relate the narrative writing structure to a short fable.
Draft the alternate ending at an appropriate pace.
Write imaginative, possibly original, an appropriate approach to task, engaging the audience.
Combine elements of a simple narrative and propose a unique alternate solution.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Plot, Setting, Characters
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Developing an Alternate Ending
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Story Chain
Success Criteria - Story Writing Checklist
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Scaffolder Notes - Story Genres, Story Template
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – Online Quiz
Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Story Cube - Cube Creator
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - PQP Technique
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 5 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3abcde/5/10
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Connectives, Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students how to write an alternate ending to a story, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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 is a PowerPoint Presentation designed to help students master the art of summarisation. Summarisation is an essential skill for effective reading, writing and comprehension. This is a carefully crafted resource aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Common Core Standards for ELA-Literacy in Writing. The goal of this resource is to guide students through the process of summarisation with a comprehensive approach that covers essential learning objectives and success criteria. This resource aims to enhance summarisation skills, ensuring students can remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create effective summaries. Every student has unique needs, and the differentiated approach ensures that students receive the support that suits their level and requirements.
This resource includes:
REMEMBERING
Do’s and don’ts
UNDERSTANDING
Author’s language with its impact on the readers
FINGER RETELL strategy to give a sentence summary
5W1H technique to give a sentence summary
Mini-plenary
APPLYING
The passage
The planning frame
The sample plan to write the first draft of the summary
The word bank to write the first draft of the summary
Use the sentence frame to write the summary.
ANALYSING
Analyse the summary and identify the do’s and don’ts.
EVALUATING
Evaluate the summary for the author’s use of language.
Evaluate the summaries to say which of these are right and wrong and why.
CREATING
Differentiated Tasks.
Each task has a prompt, passage, planning frame and sentence frame.
Rubrics, both for reading and writing, to assess student outcomes.
A lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on review writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand the conventions of a review to use them in writing.
Determine the qualities and characteristics of an effective review.
Apply your knowledge to write a review on seen, read, bought or experienced product.
Review a peer work to compare your ideas with other reviewers.
This Resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Reviews
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Reviewing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Reviewing the review types, review subjects, and review purposes.
Discussion:
Review Conventions
Tips for Place Review
Guidelines on Book Review
Guidelines on Movie Review
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying the features of a place review and a book review.
Think-Write: Comparing and contrasting reviews.
Write-Share: Using graphic organizer to write a review of a book.
Mini-Plenary: 4 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Writing reviews of the given situations.
Extensions: Online Film Review and Writing with Writers.
Plenary: Selecting best options that answer reviewing questions.
Home Learning:
Writing a place review.
Writing book review.
Writing movie review.
Identifying the review types, review subjects, and review purposes.
Reading review to answer questions.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 9-10.1a-e/2a-f/4/8
Skills: Social and Cognitive
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
A ready to use lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on poem writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire knowledge of poetry structures, elements, and forms.
Develop students’ abilities to understand a poetic response to the world they inhabit, both from the point of view of a poet and from their own experience.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of poetry in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Poetry, Poem
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links - Science, Math, Social Studies
Flipped Lesson Part - Videos
Success Criteria - Poem Writing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Matching the poem types with their meanings.
Discussion:
Poetry Structures
Poetry Elements
Poetry Forms
Tips to Write a Poem
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying the poem types.
Think-Write: Writing Ode and Tanka poems.
Write-Share: Writing a 7-line, diamond-shaped poem (Diamante) poem.
Mini-Plenary: 2 Online Exercises
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating the skill of poetry in writing.
Extensions: Write a HAIKU poem evoking images of the natural world.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on poem writing.
Home Learning:
Writing poems as suggested.
Writing poems as directed.
Writing poems based on situations.
Writing poems based on prompts.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.2b/3d
Skills: Social and Cognitive
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
A unit lesson presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of informal letter writing based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING: Recognise and retrieve the key elements of an informal letter.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING: Interpret and classify the authorial techniques in an informal letter.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING: Implement and execute informal letter writing techniques.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING: Explore and demonstrate the knowledge of informal letters in writing.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING: Check and critique a sample informal letter.
SESSION 6 - CREATING: Compose and produce the final informal letter.
This download includes:
FLIPPED LESSON: Video - How to write an informal letter
LESSON STARTER: List the differences between formal and informal letters – use VENN DIAGRAM to spot the similarities as well.
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - RECOGNISE-RETRIEVE
EXERCISE 1: Find, list and label the structure and features of an informal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 1: Structure and Features of Informal Letter
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - INTERPRET-CLASSIFY
EXERCISE 2: Explain the use of the language, the vocabulary and the impact of it in an informal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Impact of Language and Vocabulary in an Informal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 3: Use of Language in an Informal Letter
SESSION 3: APPLYING - IMPLEMENT-EXECUTE
EXERCISE 3: Use a planning frame to arrange a sample informal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Planning Frame of an Informal Letter
SESSION 4: ANALYSING - EXPLORE-DEMONSTRATE
EXERCISE 4: Use the writing organiser to organise a draft of a sample informal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Informal Letter Writing Organiser
SESSION 5: EVALUATING - CHECK-CRITIQUE
EXERCISE 5: Use the checklist and the rubric to evaluate each other’s work.
EXERCISE 6: Use the PQP and TAG technique to peer-review with constructive feedback.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Informal Letter Checklist
Scaffolding Notes 7: PQP and TAG Techniques
SESSION 6: CREATING - COMPOSE-PRODUCE
EXERCISE 7: Use a prompt, integrate the feedback and write an informal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 8: Informal Letter Prompt
DIFFERENTIATION:
EXERCISE 8 - Write a letter to people known following the INFORMAL LETTER FORMAT.
Scaffolding Notes 9: Informal Letter Rubrics
PLENARY:
EXERCISE 9 - Answer the given questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the informal letter.
HOME LEARNING:
EXERCISE 10: Use Letter Generator to write a letter to your friend telling him/her how you spent your holidays.
EXERCISE 11: Letters to favourite persons, friends and relatives.
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
A bundle of 20 writing presentations for ESL students.
This download includes:
Imaginative Writing
Narrative Writing
Biography Writing
Article Writing
Report Writing
Argumentative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Diary Writing
Persuasive Writing
Summary Writing
Review Writing
Paragraph Writing
Dialogue Writing
Creating Writing
Autobiography Writing
Factual Description
Play-Script Writing
Poem Writing
Using Textual Prompts to Write
Non-chronological Report
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
A ready to use lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on dialogue writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Define dialogue and dialogue tags.
List rules to use when punctuating dialogue.
Apply dialogue technique to present events and characters to engage the interest of an audience.
Demonstrate the use of dynamic dialogues in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Dialogue, Dialogue Tags
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Dialogue Checklist
Lesson Starter: Creating conversations to tell a story to match the picture.
Discussion: Dialogue Rules
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Filling out the speech in the bubbles to make a story.
Think-Write: Using dialogue tags to convert given conversation into a story.
Write-Share: Rewriting the given story in a dialogue form.
Mini-Plenary: 4 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Writing dialogues for situations given.
Extensions: Online Exercises
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on dialogue writing.
Home Learning:
Using dialogue tags to reconstruct stories.
Presenting stories in a dialogue form.
Unscrambling the dialogues to reconstruct the story.
Using reporting verbs to create dialogue tags.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.3ab/4
Skills: Social and Cognitive
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
“Mastering Argumentative Writing” is an engaging and comprehensive resource designed to teach students the art of constructing persuasive arguments. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, the resource focuses on developing students’ skills across various levels of cognitive understanding, from remembering key components to creating well-structured and compelling essays. The learning objectives and student outcomes cover a range of cognitive levels, progressing from basic recall and understanding to higher-order skills like analysis, evaluation, and creation, in alignment with Bloom’s Taxonomy. This resource includes writing tasks that are differentiated based on the performance of learners in CAT4, GL, and NGRT assessments and tailored to address learner-specific needs and abilities. These tasks help educators provide targeted support and challenges to meet the diverse needs of learners and promote their growth in writing proficiency.