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.
These Worksheets with an Answer Key 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.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-3) with their meanings (A-C).
EXERCISE 2: Consider the positions to identify the modal verbs that exemplify their functions in the given text.
EXERCISE 3: Watch the video - Modals, Modal Verbs, Types of Modal Verbs: Useful List & Examples – to list the types of modal verbs with examples.
EXERCISE 4: Consider the types to identify the modal verbs that exemplify their expressions in the given text.
EXERCISE 5: Use the sentence stems to verbalise the actions to go with the functions of modal verbs.
EXERCISE 6: Complete the conversations using appropriate modal verbs.
EXERCISE 7: Form and use modal verbs to express ability, possibility, advice, obligation and request.
EXERCISE 8: Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal verbs.
EXERCISE 9: Ensure that modal verbs are in the proper position in the given text.
EXERCISE 10: Identify the impact of the use of modal verbs in writing.
EXERCISE 11: Form and use modal verbs to convey various conditions.
EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate the knowledge of modal verbs.
EXERCISE 13: Identify the appropriate use of modal verbs in writing.
EXERCISE 14: Create new sentences with modal verbs to express a particular purpose.
EXERCISE 15: Produce well-written sentences using modal verbs in correct positions.
RUBRICS: Model Verbs Rubrics
EXERCISE 16: Identify the modal verbs from the travel document and say what they express.
EXERCISE 17: Read the following advice extract and identify the modal verbs.
EXERCISE 18: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the modals. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 19: Fill in the correct form of can, could or be able to. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 20: Fill in the correct form of shall, should or ought in the following sentences. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 21: Fill in the correct form of may or might. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 22: Fill in the correct form of will or would. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 23: Fill in the blanks using suitable modal verbs.
EXERCISE 24: Identify the errors in the use of modal verbs in the following passages and write the correction.
These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Adjectives - Degrees of Comparison. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-7) with their meaning (A-G). Write the letters in the space.
EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Adjectives: Degrees of Comparison – to answer the given questions.
EXERCISE 3: Supply comparative and superlative forms of the given adjectives that follow the following conditions in forming degrees of comparison.
EXERCISE 4: Identify the conditions applied for forming degrees of comparison of the given adjectives.
EXERCISE 5: Fill in the correct comparative and superlative forms into the gaps.
EXERCISE 6: Fill in the correct comparative and superlative forms of the irregular adjectives.
EXERCISE 7: Choose a correct form of adjective for each sentence.
EXERCISE 8: Identify the form of the adjectives.
EXERCISE 9: Identify the degree of the adjectives in comparison.
EXERCISE 10: Identify the part of the sentence that exemplifies the rule of using degrees of comparison.
EXERCISE 11: Complete each sentence with suitable form of the adjective given in the brackets.
EXERCISE 12: Fill in the blanks with positive, comparative or superlative adjectives.
EXERCISE 13: Fill in the blanks with irregular positive, comparative or superlative adjectives.
EXERCISE 14: Compare the nouns in the given images using degrees of comparison. Use the given adjective.
EXERCISE 15: Use the comparative degree of the adjectives to compare two nouns in the pictures.
EXERCISE 16: Use the superlative degree of the adjectives to compare more than two nouns in the pictures.
EXERCISE 17: Use the given nouns and adjectives to form the positive degree. Then change the positive into comparative and the comparative to superlative without changing the meaning of the sentence.
EXERCISE 18: Decide if the following sentences are correct or incorrect in the use of degrees of comparison.
EXERCISE 19: Identify the sentences that have errors using rules for degrees of comparison.
EXERCISE 20: Evaluate the following sentences for the use of degrees of comparison.
EXERCISE 21: Change the degrees of comparison. First one is done for you.
EXERCISE 22: Attempt any one of the activities to demonstrate your mastery in using adjectives - degrees of comparison - in writing.
EXERCISE 23: Identify the degree of comparison of the adjectives used in the following sentences.
EXERCISE 24: Identify the adjectives and their degrees of comparison.
These Worksheets are perfect for teaching Spelling – Shun Sounding Suffixes – Words Ending in -cian, -sion and -tion. 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:
Give examples for nouns made by adding shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion to base words.
Choose a correct noun that ends in shun sounding suffix (-cian, -sion or –tion) to fill each of the blanks.
Identify the spelling rules applied in changing the base words into shun sounding nouns.
Use the shun sounding suffixes (-cian, -sion or -tion) to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words.
Exercise error identification to assess the correct use of shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion.
Create new word patterns with words ending in shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion to use in writing.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Give examples for nouns (jobs, hobbies, skills) made by adding a shun sounding suffix -cian to base words.
EXERCISE 2: Give examples for nouns made by adding a shun sounding suffix –sion to verbs.
EXERCISE 3: Give examples to nouns made by adding a shun sounding suffix –tion to verbs.
EXERCISE 4: Add the correct shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion or -tion to the stems to complete the words.
EXERCISE 5: Choose a correct shun sounding suffix (-cian, -sion or –tion) to fill each of the blanks.
EXERCISE 6: Choose a correct noun that ends in shun sounding suffix (-cian, -sion or –tion) to fill each of the blanks.
EXERCISE 7: Identify the spelling rules applied in changing the base words into shun sounding nouns – Part 1 and 2.
EXERCISE 8: Use the shun sounding suffixes (-cian, -sion or -tion) to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 1 and 2.
EXERCISE 9: Exercise error identification to assess the correct use of shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion in forming new words – Part 1 to 3.
EXERCISE 10: Create new word patterns with words ending in shun sounding suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion to use in writing.
EXERCISE 11: Change each root word to a noun that ends in shun sound –cian.
EXERCISE 12: Change each verb to a noun that ends in shun sound –tion.
EXERCISE 13: Change each verb to a noun that ends in shun sound –sion.
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on cause and effect information text.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire understanding of the features of cause and effect information text.
List the cause and effect text elements.
Demonstrate knowledge of cause and effect information text in writing.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Cause, Effect, Reasons, Result, Information Text
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Descriptive Writing, Cause and Effect Structure
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Causes and Effects
Success Criteria - Cause and Effect Information Text Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Cause and Effect Information Text Elements
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 - 2 Online Exercises
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Noughts and Crosses
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.W.6-8.2abcdef/4/5
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives, Connectives
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students to use cause and effect as information text in writing, thereby helping them to enhance their reading, vocabulary, language, 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 8 task cards on cautionary tales, urban legends, and mini sagas.
This resource includes:
Differentiating tale, fable, and legend.
Reading cautionary tale to answer questions.
Reading urban legend to answer questions.
Reading mini sagas to answer questions.
Demonstrating knowledge of tales in writing.
Using moral of a fable as prompt to write.
Writing your own tales, legends, and sagas.
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 package of 10 worksheets and task cards on spoken vs written English.
This resource includes:
Picking topics randomly to speak and write.
Rewriting the sentences in formal register.
Rewriting the passage in Standard English.
Using speaking and writing skills to make a difference between written and spoken English.
Demonstrating the knowledge of written vs spoken English in 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
A package of 9 worksheets on alternate ending story writing.
This resource includes exercises on:
Relating the narrative writing structure to a short fable
Identifying story elements
Providing an alternate ending to a given story
Demonstrating alternate ending story knowledge in writing
Writing your own fable
Continuing the story
Writing a story on given situation
Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the vocabulary, language, grammar, 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 6 task cards on poster designing.
This resource includes exercises on:
Finding a question to go with posters.
Identifying audience, focus, and language.
Analyzing posters for features.
Planning posters to design.
Demonstrating poster knowledge in designing.
Designing posters.
Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the designing 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 on identification of purpose, context, and style in a text.
This resource includes exercises on:
Identifying purpose, context, and style of adverts.
Identifying purpose, context, and style in a text.
Demonstrating purpose, context, and style knowledge in writing.
Comprehending texts for purpose, context, and style.
Analyzing texts for purpose, context, and style.
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
Resource-based learning actively involves students, teachers, and teacher-librarians in the effective use of a wide range of print, non-print, and human resources. Resource-based learning fosters the development of individual students by accommodating their varied interests, experiences, learning styles, needs and ability levels. Students who use a wide range of resources in various mediums for learning have the opportunity to approach a theme, issue or topic of study in ways which allow for a range of learning styles and access to the theme or topic via cognitive or effective appeals.
This Resource Covers:
1. Meaning of RBL
2. What is RBL?
3. RBL Objectives
4. RBL Outcomes
5. RBL concerned with
6. RBL Approaches
7. Digital and Social Resources
8. RBL Issues
9, RBL Implementation
10. RBL Roles
11. RBL Benefits
12. RBL Resources
A package of 11 worksheets with answers on prepositions of time.
This includes task cards and exercises on:
Using prepositions if time to describe time information.
Using timelines to write descriptions with time prepositions.
Filling the blanks with time prepositions.
Demonstrating knowledge of time prepositions in writing.
Identifying time prepositions used in text extracts.
Here are 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 that contains 14 worksheets on characterization.
This resource includes exercises on:
Describing the characters in the images.
Listing descriptive words used for description.
Spotting character traits.
Identifying characters, roles, traits, and all other elements of characterization.
Making a character description.
Demonstrating characterization knowledge in 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
A set of 10 worksheets with answers on sonnets.
This Resource includes:
EX 1: Vocabulary Checklist.
EX 2: Shakespearean Sonnet Structure.
EX 3: Miltonic Sonnet Structure.
EX 4: Compare and Contrast Sonnets.
EX 5: Writing Sonnets.
EX 6: Read Sonnets to Answer Questions.
EX 7: Test Understanding of Sonnets.
EX 8: Read Sonnets to Answer Challenging Questions.
EX 9: Paraphrasing Sonnets.
EX 10: Providing Modern Text to Sonnets.
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 10 ready to use worksheets with answers on dialogue writing.
This download includes:
Creating conversations to tell a story to match the picture.
Filling out the speech in the bubbles to make a story.
Using dialogue tags to convert given conversation into a story.
Rewriting the given story in a dialogue form.
Writing dialogues for situations given.
Answering multiple choice questions on dialogue writing.
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.
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 bunch of 10 worksheets and task cards on plot elements of a story.
This Resource Includes:
Identifying conflict types.
Suggesting conflict and plot types for genres.
Identifying plot elements.
Developing plot and describing.
Demonstrating knowledge of plot in writing.
Matching plot elements with their meaning.
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 and task-cards on imaginative writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Recall imaginative writing techniques.
Apply authorial technique to spur imagination.
Demonstrate imagination skill in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Picturing a situation with imagination.
Imagining a story hidden in the given images.
Responding to the prompting questions.
Using given prompts to spur imagination.
Demonstrating skill of imagination in writing.
Following the prompt to complete a story.
Answering multiple choice questions on imaginative writing.
Imagining and answering.
Describing what you see in your imagination.
Thinking out of the box.
Using prompts to give vent to imagination.
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 10 ready to use worksheets and task cards on suspense story writing.
After working with these worksheets 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 worksheets on:
Match the lesson vocabulary with their meanings.
Writing what most likely would happen next to given scenes.
Using the graphic organizer to plan and narrate a small suspense story.
Reading the story, “Velvet Ribbon” to visualize final scene.
Demonstrating the skill of suspense in writing.
Reading the instruction and selecting the appropriate answer.
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.
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 of worksheets 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:
EXERCISE 1: Name and define the pronoun types with examples.
EXERCISE 2: Interpret and verbalise pictures of pronouns using the listed pronouns.
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.
EXERCISE 4: Investigate and identify vague pronouns: ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents.
EXERCISE 5: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and case.
EXERCISE 6: Produce and present well-written sentences with appropriate pronoun types.
EXERCISE 7: Demonstrate the mastery of using PRONOUN TYPES in writing.
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of pronoun types.
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.
A unit of worksheets with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of determiners based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING - Recall and list the class of words that determine or limit the meaning of nouns.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING - Compare and contrast definite and indefinite modifiers that give information about nouns.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING - Examine and discover the relationship between describing and modifying words.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING - Analyse the placement of noun modifiers and their purpose in writing.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING - Assess and evaluate the use of noun modifiers.
SESSION 6 - CREATING - Integrate and rearrange the order of determiner categories.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1 - Interpret and verbalise pictures of determiners: demonstratives (1-4), article (5), possessive (6), number (7) and distributive (8).
EXERCISE 2 - Define the determiner types and state their functions in general with examples.
EXERCISE 3 - State the similarities and differences between specific and general determiners with examples.
EXERCISE 4 - Order and group the characteristics of adjectives and determiners with examples.
EXERCISE 5 - Identify what the nouns refer to depending on the functions of determiners in particular sentences.
EXERCISE 6 - Judge and decide the appropriate use of determiners in particular sentences.
EXERCISE 7 - Formulate sensible sentences using the order of pre-determiners, main determiners and post determiners as informing words to the given nouns.
EXERCISE 8 - Demonstrate the mastery of using determiners in writing.
EXERCISE 9 - Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of determiners.
EXERCISE 10 - Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of determiners.
EXERCISE 11 - Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of determiners.
EXERCISE 12 - Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of determiners.
A unit worksheets and answers on prose comprehension with resources for 6 sessions on teaching and learning of the story “My Lost Dollar” by Stephen Butler Leacock based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text and analyze the impact of specific word choices.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING - Analyze the development of the text including its relationship to the setting.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING - Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters create such effects as humour.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING - Analyze how incidents in a story propel the action, reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING - Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
SESSION 6 - CREATING - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1 - Find the meaning of certain expressions: words and phrases in the story.
EXERCISE 2 - Use the setting element’s template to identify the setting elements to describe the setting of the story.
EXERCISE 3 - Use the character description guide for the characterization of the main characters of the story.
EXERCISE 4 - Use Freytag’s Pyramid to identify plot elements to develop the plot of the story.
EXERCISE 5 - Use a story analysis guide to identify the story elements to do the critical appreciation of the story.
EXERCISE 6 - Use the summary elements template to identify the summary elements to provide a summary of the story.
EXERCISE 7 - Demonstrate the mastery of comprehension by answering given questions. Follow the rubrics.
EXERCISE 8 - Answer the questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension (Part 1).
EXERCISE 9 - Answer the questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension (Part 2).
EXERCISE 10 - Answer the questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension (Part 3).
EXERCISE 11 - Answer the questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension (Part 4).
EXERCISE 12 - Answer the plot-related questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension.
EXERCISE 13 - Answer the story element related questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension.
EXERCISE 14 - Answer the literary technique related questions to demonstrate your skill of comprehension.
EXERCISE 15 - Answer the following comprehension questions (Part 1).
EXERCISE 16 - Answer the following comprehension questions (Part 2).