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 package that contains 10 worksheets on form filling.
This resource includes exercises on:
Comparing forms
Identifying the purpose of forms
Creating Google forms
Filling forms
Retrieving information to fill the forms
Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the vocabulary, language, comprehension, and writing skills of the learners.
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Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on reading strategies to compare texts while analyzing the texts.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire text comparison skills.
Discuss text comparison criteria.
Analyse texts to determine what they have in common, and how they differ.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Text Analysis, Text Comparison
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Comparing Texts
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Compare and Contrast
Success Criteria - Comparing Texts Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Text Comparison Criteria
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – 3 Online Quizzes
Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Online Exercises
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Post-It Notes
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 3 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RL.6-8.5/RI.6-8.3/9
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students to compare two texts, thereby helping them to enhance their reading and 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
A package of 9 worksheets with answers on comparing texts as a reading strategy.
This resource includes exercises on:
Identifying differences and similarities.
Comparing two text types.
Comparing two set of extracts.
Comparing two poems.
Demonstrating knowledge of comparing texts in writing.
Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the reading 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
A bundle of 4 resources on reading strategies to compare texts in a text analysis process.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Criteria, Rubrics
Worksheets, Exercises, and Task Cards
Lesson Plan with Resources
Ready to use PowerPoint Presentation
Teachers can use these ready-made resources to enhance the vocabulary, language, grammar, reading, 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
A Comprehensive Presentation that includes assistance:
1. To recognize how data can be used to identify and characterize the classroom.
2. To interpret a class set of data using MIDYIS graphs.
3. To distinguish between effective and ineffective teaching methods for the individual.
A compact review of play-script organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Play-script Features
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about play-script writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A bundle of 4 resources on reading persuasive texts in a text analysis process.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Characteristics, Techniques, Rubrics
Worksheets, Exercises, and Task Cards
Lesson Plan with Resources
Ready to use PowerPoint Presentation
Teachers can use these ready-made resources to enhance the vocabulary, language, grammar, reading, 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
A package of 10 worksheets with answers on poetry analysis.
This resource includes:
Composing one’s own poems.
Identifying poetry elements from the given poems.
Making a critical appreciation of a poem.
Demonstrating mastery of poetry analysis in writing.
Analyzing poems to answer questions.
Analyzing a sonnet to answer questions.
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 plan of 3 sessions with teaching and learning classroom resources on poetry comprehension – Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Lee Frost.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation (session 1).
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem (session 2).
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context (session 3).
This Unit includes:
LESSON PREVIEW:
Poem and Summary (Scaffold Notes 1)
Poet, Introduction, and Setting (Scaffold Notes 2)
SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Discussion:
Poetry Forms (Scaffold Notes 3)
Poetry Structures (Scaffold Notes 4)
Poetry Analysis Guide (Scaffold Notes 5)
Poetry Analysis Template (Scaffold Notes 6)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Identification of Poetry Elements (Exercise 1)
Write-Share - Critical Appreciation of the Poem (Exercise 2)
Assessment - Poetry Analysis Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 7)
Differentiated Tasks - Planning to write a poems (Exercise 3)
Plenary - Online Quiz
SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES IN POETRY AND THEIR USAGE
Discussion:
Comparison Devices (Scaffold Notes 8)
Sound Devices (Scaffold Notes 9)
Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 10)
Poetic Devices Prompts (Scaffold Notes 11)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 4)
Write-Share - Explanation of the Poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 5)
Assessment - Poetic Devices in Poetry Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 12)
Differentiated Tasks - Creating poems (Exercise 6)
Plenary - Online Quiz
SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:
Annotation Guide (Scaffold Notes 13)
Annotation Template and Prompt (Scaffold Notes 14)
Explanation Prompts for Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 15)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Summarizing the meaning (Exercise 7)
Ask-Write - Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 8)
Write-Advance - Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 9)
Assessment - Annotation Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 16)
Differentiated Tasks - Analyzing poems (Exercise 10)
Plenary - Online Quiz
HOME LEARNING - Comprehension Questions (Exercise 11)
CCSS - Common Core Standards - ELA.LITERACY.RL.6-8.1-4
SKILLS - Social and Cognitive
A set of 10 worksheets with answers on summary writing.
This Resource includes:
Summarizing the nursery rhymes.
Evaluating the summaries.
Identifying the summary elements of a text.
Identifying the summary elements of a story.
Summarizing the given topic.
Selecting a phrase that best summarizes the given extract.
Preparing questions based on main idea and details of a summary.
Summarizing by describing details 1, 2, and 3.
Underlining key ideas, and summarizing in 25 words.
Converting summaries into detailed stories.
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 set of 16 task cards and exercises on poetry comprehension – The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation.
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem.
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context.
This resource includes:
Paraphrasing the poem to its literal meaning (Exercise 1)
Inferring the character of the speaker (Exercise 2)
Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Writing poems (Exercise 4)
Selecting correct option to answer questions (Exercise 5)
Meanings of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
Explanation of the poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 8)
Creating poems (Exercise 9)
Answering questions with options (Exercise 10)
Summarizing the meaning (Exercise 11)
Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 12)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
Presenting answers in the form of poems (Exercise 14)
Multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Comprehension questions (Exercise 16)
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 set of 12 ready to use worksheets and task cards on descriptive writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Recall descriptive vocabulary for a descriptive writer.
Acquire knowledge of descriptive techniques and imagery types.
Analyse a descriptive paragraph for features.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of description in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Writing descriptive words, a simile, and a metaphor to describe images.
Comparing two descriptions.
Identifying descriptive techniques used in a description.
Describing a picture using sensory language.
Demonstrating the skill of description in writing.
Answering multiple choice questions on descriptive writing.
Using descriptive sample openers to come up with own descriptions.
Circling descriptive words in the given passage.
Describing the usefulness of any of the given man-made materials.
Reading to write down examples of descriptive techniques.
Identifying the sensory language used in the given passage.
Reading the given description to notice examples of descriptive techniques.
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 plan that presents teaching and learning resources on descriptive writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Recall descriptive vocabulary for a descriptive writer.
Acquire knowledge of descriptive techniques and imagery types.
Analyse a descriptive paragraph for features.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of description in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Description, Imagery
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links - Science, Math, Social Studies
Flipped Lesson Part - Videos
Success Criteria - Descriptive Writing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Writing descriptive words to describe images.
Discussion:
Descriptive Writing Toolkit
Imagery Types
Lists of Adjectives and Adverbs
Descriptive Chart for Descriptive Writer
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Comparing two descriptions.
Think-Write: Identifying descriptive techniques used in a description.
Write-Share: Describing a picture using sensory language.
Mini-Plenary: 3 Online Exercises
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating the skill of description in writing.
Extensions: Using descriptive sample openers to come up with own descriptions.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on descriptive writing.
Home Learning:
Circling descriptive words in the given passage.
Describing the usefulness of any of the given man-made materials.
Reading to write down examples of descriptive techniques.
Identifying the sensory language used in the given passage.
Reading the given description to notice examples of descriptive techniques.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.3a-e
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 plan that presents teaching and learning resources on suspense story writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire knowledge of the techniques that create sustaining suspense.
Analyse plot diagram for a suspense story.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of suspense in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Suspense, Cliffhanger, Mystery
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links - Science, Math, Social Studies
Flipped Lesson Part - Prezi Presentation
Success Criteria - Suspense Story Checklist
Lesson Starter: Matching the lesson vocabulary with their meanings.
Discussion:
Creating Suspense Using Genre Elements
Creating Sustaining Suspense
Story Components
Plot Diagram
Plot Template
Story Starters
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Writing what most likely would happen next to given scenes.
Think-Write: Using the graphic organizer to plan and narrate a suspense story.
Write-Share: Reading the story, “Velvet Ribbon” to visualize final scene.
Mini-Plenary: 4 Online Exercises
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating the skill of suspense in writing.
Extensions: Using the planning sheet from Mystery Cube to write a Suspense Story.
Plenary: Reading the instruction and selecting the appropriate answer.
Home Learning:
Thinking of an alternate ending with suspense to the given story.
Thinking of a story, “The Student Who Cried Teacher” to pull a false alarm.
Choosing a set of three elements to write a suspense story.
Writing a suspense story on given situation.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.3a-e/5/10
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 set of 11 ready to use worksheets with answers on article writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Recall article writing techniques.
Apply authorial technique to write articles.
Analyse author’s use of language and the impact of it in writing an article.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of article in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Matching the topics with the titles.
Analyzing a feature to spot the parts of an article.
Providing the paragraphs with suitable topic sentences.
Choosing a topic to write an article.
Demonstrating the skill of feature articles in writing.
Answering multiple choice questions on article writing.
Writing prompts to write articles to health magazines.
Identifying the structural elements of a news story.
Thinking of creative titles for the given short articles.
Matching the given first paragraphs with the topic sentences.
Thinking of an appropriate conclusion to given paragraphs.
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 set of 17 task cards and exercises on poetry comprehension – Tyger Tyger (The Tiger) by William Blake.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation.
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem.
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context.
This download includes worksheets on:
Inferring the meaning of the words from the context of the poem (Exercise 1)
Referring to lines that ask the given questions (Exercise 2)
Making a critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Answering think a bit questions (Exercise 4)
Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5)
Identifying the meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Identifying and explaining the poetic devices used in the poem (Exercise 7)
Comparing two poems of William Blake - The Tiger and The Lamb (Exercise 8)
Thinking a bit and answering (Exercise 9)
Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10)
Summarizing the stanzas of the poem (Exercise 11)
Identifying annotation elements (Exercise 12)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Answering inferential questions (Exercise 16)
Answering MCQs questions (Exercise 17)
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 set of 9 scaffolding notes of 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:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Structure and Features of Informal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 2: Impact of Language and Vocabulary in an Informal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 3: Use of Language in an Informal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 4: Planning Frame of an Informal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 5: Informal Letter Writing Organiser
Scaffolding Notes 6: Informal Letter Checklist
Scaffolding Notes 7: PQP and TAG Techniques
Scaffolding Notes 8: Informal Letter Prompt
Scaffolding Notes 9: Informal Letter 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
A set of 15 task cards and exercises on poetry comprehension – If- by Rudyard Kipling.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation.
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem.
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context.
This download includes worksheets on:
Inferring the meaning of the words from the context of the poem (Exercise 1)
Writing lines that refer to given meanings (Exercise 2)
Making a critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Answering think a bit questions (Exercise 4)
Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5)
Identifying the meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Identifying and explaining the poetic devices used in the poem (Exercise 7)
Comparing and contrasting “you” with “others” (Exercise 8)
Thinking a bit and answering (Exercise 9)
Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10)
Summarizing the stanzas of the poem (Exercise 11)
Identifying annotation elements (Exercise 12)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on digital storytelling.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Know and use a process for creating a digital story.
Select and use appropriate digital tool(s).
Understand how to use a Storyboard to build and organize your story elements.
Participate in constructive peer feedback to improve the end product to be shared.
Create an original story with different media elements.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Plot, Moral, Point of View
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Digital Story
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Generate Creative Writing Prompts
Success Criteria - Digital Storytelling Checklist
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Scaffolder Notes - Digital Storytelling Elements
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – Online Quizzes
Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Exercise
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - PEEL 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 use cumulative sentences in their writing, 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
Ready to use worksheets with answers on poetry comprehension of the poem, “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the meanings (A-Z) with the expressions (1-26) they refer to.
EXERCISE 2: Find meanings of certain expressions: words and phrases in the poem.
EXERCISE 3: Determine meanings of words and phrases as they are used in the poem.
EXERCISE 4: Analyse the development of vocabulary over the course of the text.
EXERCISE 5: Read the poem and briefly summarise the meaning of each stanza.
EXERCISE 6: Determine the central idea of the poem and analyse its development.
EXERCISE 7: Match the different feelings (1-6) Bess would have at different points during the story with the time and the reason (A-H) she feels these different emotions.
EXERCISE 8: Use textual clues to answer the comprehension questions – Part 1.
EXERCISE 9: Use textual clues to answer the comprehension questions – Part 2.
EXERCISE 10: Use textual clues to answer the comprehension questions – Part 3.
EXERCISE 11: Use the specified criteria to find poetry elements of the poem.
EXERCISE 12: Analyse the impact of specific word choices.
EXERCISE 13: Answer questions to check your understanding of poetry elements.
EXERCISE 14: Use PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to analyse poet’s use of comparison poetic devices in the poem.
EXERCISE 15: Answer the questions to check your understanding of comparison poetic devices used in the poem.
EXERCISE 16: Use PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to analyse poet’s use of sound poetic devices in the poem.
EXERCISE 17: Answer the questions to check your understanding of sound poetic devices used in the poem.
EXERCISE 18: Use PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to analyse poet’s use of figurative language in the poem.
EXERCISE 19: Answer the questions to check your understanding of the figurative language used in the poem.
EXERCISE 20: Write a PEEL (Point-Evidence-Explain-Link) paragraph on any one of the comparison poetic devices used in the poem.
EXERCISE 21: Write a PEEL (Point-Evidence-Explain-Link) paragraph on any one of the sound poetic devices used in the poem.
EXERCISE 22: Write a PEEL (Point-Evidence-Explain-Link) paragraph on any one of the figures of speech used in the poem.
EXERCISE 23: Use the guide to describe the character of the highwayman based on what you learn in the poem.