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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on PEE paragraph writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand the characteristic language of texts.
Acquire knowledge of PEE technique to analyse a text.
Comment on the purpose, context, style, audience, register, and tone of the given text.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - PEE, Point, Evidence, Explanation
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - How to Nail a PEE Paragraph
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – PEE SNIKKERS
Success Criteria - PEE Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - PEE Method, PEE Template
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – 2 Online Quizzes
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 - PQP Technique
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1/RI.8.8/SL.8.1a/L.8.4a/W.8.2b
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 PEE method to analyze a text, 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 ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on article writing.
After completing this lesson, the 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:
Vocabulary Overview - Articles, Features, News Story
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Videos
Success Criteria - Article Writing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Matching the topics with the titles.
Discussion:
Article Writing Tips
Structure of a Feature Article
Features of a Feature Article
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Analyzing a feature to spot the parts of an article.
Think-Write: Providing the paragraphs with suitable topic sentences.
Write-Share: Choosing a topic to write an article.
Mini-Plenary: 2 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating article writing skill.
Extensions: Writing prompts to write articles to health magazines.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on article writing.
Home Learning:
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.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.1a-e/4/7
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 plan with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of formal 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 a formal letter.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING: Interpret and classify the authorial techniques in a formal letter.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING: Implement and execute formal letter writing techniques.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING: Explore and demonstrate the knowledge of formal letters in writing.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING: Check and critique a sample formal letter.
SESSION 6 - CREATING: Compose and produce the final formal letter.
This download includes:
FLIPPED LESSON: Video - Know the Rules of Formal Letter Writing
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 a formal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 1: Structure and Features of Formal Letter
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - INTERPRET-CLASSIFY
EXERCISE 2: Explain the use of the language, the vocabulary and the impact of it in a formal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Impact of Language and Vocabulary in a Formal Letter
Scaffolding Notes 3: Author’s use of Language in a Formal Letter
SESSION 3: APPLYING - IMPLEMENT-EXECUTE
EXERCISE 3: Use a planning frame to arrange a sample formal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Planning Frame of a Formal Letter
SESSION 4: ANALYSING - EXPLORE-DEMONSTRATE
EXERCISE 4: Use the template to organise a draft of a sample formal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Formal Letter Template
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 each other’s work with constructive feedback.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Formal Letter Checklist
Scaffolding Notes 7: PQP and TAG technique
SESSION 6: CREATING - COMPOSE-PRODUCE
EXERCISE 7: Integrate the feedback and write a formal letter.
Scaffolding Notes 8: Formal Letter Prompt
DIFFERENTIATION:
EXERCISE 8 - Write a letter to people unknown following the FORMAL LETTER FORMAT.
Scaffolding Notes 9: Formal Letter Rubrics
PLENARY:
EXERCISE 9 - Answer the given questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the formal letter on Kahoot.
HOME LEARNING:
EXERCISE 10: Use Letter Generator to write a letter to your Class Teacher telling him/her how you spent your holidays.
EXERCISE 11: Letters of Persuasion
EXERCISE 12: Letters of Request
EXERCISE 13: Letters of Complaints and Responses
EXERCISE 14: Letters of Social Business
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 unit lesson plan with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of newspaper report writing based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1: Recognise, retrieve and name the key elements of a report.
SESSION 2: Interpret and classify the authorial techniques in a report.
SESSION 3: Implement and execute report writing techniques.
SESSION 4: Demonstrate the knowledge of reporting in writing.
SESSION 5: Check and critique a given report.
SESSION 6: Compose and produce the final 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
For reinforcement and enrichment
A list of handouts and scaffolding notes on article writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Sample Newspaper Article
News Paper Article Format
Sample Feature Article
Features of a Feature Article
Structure of a Feature Article
Article Writing Tips
Assessment 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 compact review of diary entry organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Diary Checklist and Word-Bank
Sample Diary Entry
Diary Writing Features
Diary Writing Format
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about the diary 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 ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources of simple sentence structure based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Recall the properties of sentences with examples.
Identify the parts of simple sentences with examples.
Think of simple sentences to go with the given pictures.
Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
EXERCISE 1: Compare and contrast a phrase, clause and sentence. Use subject, verb and complete thought as criteria to differentiate. Use YES and NO to identify the difference.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Phrase-Clause-Sentence Chart
EXERCISE 2: Identify the properties of sentences in the given examples.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Parts of a Sentence
EXERCISE 3: Identify the parts of sentences.
EXERCISE 4: Identify the parts of a simple sentence with examples.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Features of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 5: Answering questions to demonstrate the knowledge of sentence structure.
EXERCISE 6: Think of a simple sentence to go with each picture.
EXERCISE 7: Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Structure of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following to recognise variations in sentence structure as used in writing.
EXERCISE 9: Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
EXERCISE 10: Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
EXERCISE 11: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of simple sentence structure in writing.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Sentence Structure Rubrics
EXERCISE 12: Identify the following as phrase, clause and sentence.
EXERCISE 13: Identify subject and predicate from the given sentences.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the subjects and verbs then decide whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
EXERCISE 15: Put each group of words together in a sentence.
EXERCISE 16: Complete each sentence by adding either a subject or a predicate.
A ready to use lesson plan 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 Resource 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
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on debating skills.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Review basic debating skills.
Discuss the debate format for a classroom.
Learn how to conduct a debate.
Demonstrate the art of argument building in a debate.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Debate, Argument, Rebuttal
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Basic Debating Skills
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Debate Decide
Success Criteria - Debate Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Debating Format for a Classroom, Conducting a Debate
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 - Worksheet
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - What If
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1cd/3/6
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - 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 compact review of 10 top spelling rules for quick referencing. A handout that explains the spelling rules and exceptions related to them with examples. It also includes rubrics for assessment. Teachers can use this cheat sheet as a ready reference material to remind the learners about the rules to be followed in order to use correct spelling in writing, thereby helping them to enhance the spelling and vocabulary skills.
A set of 15 ready to use worksheets with answers on sentence structure.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Compare a sentence with a clause and a phrase.
Differentiate sentence types.
Analyse the structure of sentences.
Recognize variations in sentence structure as used in writing.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of sentence structure in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Comparing a sentence with a phrase and a clause.
Thinking of sentences to go with each of the given pictures.
Identifying the given sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Picking conjunctions (coordinators or sub-ordinators) to join the two sentences together.
Demonstrating command of sentence structure in writing.
Rewriting sentences in varied structures.
Answering multiple choice questions on sentence structure.
Following the rules to place the commas in the correct places.
Identifying the main clause and sub-clause in the sentences.
Combining sentences using either coordinators or subordinators.
Joining sentences by using when, where, if, although, because, since, while.
Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:
To challenge early finishers
For effective tutoring
As ESL stations and sub tubs
As holiday work and homework
For small group collaborations
For an end of unit assessments
For reinforcement and enrichment
This Presentation that includes First Aid Information on:
1. Sprain
2. Fracture
3. No Breathing
4. Shortness of Breath
5. Heartburn
6. Asthma
7. Heavy Bleeding
8. Epilepsy
9. Stroke
10. Choking
11. Burn
12. Heat Stroke
13. Heart Attack
A ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on paragraph writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Gain knowledge of the understanding of the basic elements of a paragraph.
Apply PEEL and PEEC models to construct paragraphs.
Demonstrate the knowledge of paragraphing in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Paragraphs
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Paragraphing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Choosing a topic to write a paragraph.
Discussion: Paragraphing Structure
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Spotting topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence.
Think-Write: Using PEEL model to construct a paragraph.
Write-Share: Using PEEC model to construct a paragraph.
Mini-Plenary: 3 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Writing paragraphs on given situations.
Extensions: Writing a paragraph to convey information as required by the topic.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on paragraphing.
Home Learning:
Dividing the given text into paragraphs.
Arranging paragraphs in a logical order.
Identifying the topic and the closing sentences in paragraphs.
Matching topic and closing sentences with correct paragraphs.
Putting sentences in correct order to produce a well-organized paragraph.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 9-10.2a-f/4/5
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
“Unlocking the Art of Magazine Article Writing,” is the ultimate resource bundle designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge to excel in crafting engaging and impactful magazine articles. This video course follows Bloom’s Taxonomy and aligns with the Common Core Standards for ELA-Literacy in Writing. It provides a step-by-step approach to becoming a proficient magazine article writer, covering various key aspects.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes: 8 Handouts
Worksheets with Answers: 11 Exercises
Unit Lesson Plan with Resources: 20 Pages
PowerPoint Presentation: 31 Slides
Google Slides: 31 Slides
More reading and writing resources by the same author:
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Persuasion
Argumentation
News Paper Report
Biography
Information Text
Diary Writing
Magazine Article
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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 set of 11 task cards on poetry comprehension – Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Lee 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:
Identification of poetry elements (Exercise 1)
Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 2)
Planning to write a poems (Exercise 3)
Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 4)
Explanation of the poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 5)
Creating poems (Exercise 6)
Summarizing the meaning (Exercise 7)
Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 8)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 9)
Analyzing poems (Exercise 10)
Comprehension Questions (Exercise 11)
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 presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on note taking.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Identify the importance and usefulness of note-taking skills.
Evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of various note-taking strategies.
Prepare notes from lectures, texts, videos, and activities.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Note Taking, Reading
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Note Taking Methods
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Guess the WALT
Success Criteria - Note Taking Checklist
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Scaffolder Notes - Rules, 5 R’s, Format, Abbreviations
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 - Note Taker
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - The Plenary Dice
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 5 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-12.1-3/W.9-12.4
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Connectives
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students to take notes, 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
These Google Slides are perfect for teaching Irony – Verbal, Situational and Dramatic. 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 irony types – verbal, situational and dramatic.
Examine the examples of irony and state what is ironic in them.
Show examples of irony that use language, which normally signifies the opposite.
Interpret a given text and identify the examples of irony.
Evaluate a text and explain how irony is used in it.
Use language to express the opposite of what is expected for humorous or emphatic effect
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 freebie on Shakespearean comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
This resource includes:
Transcript Summary
Transcript of the Play-script
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