Interactive, collaborative and web-based google slides on teaching and learning resources of 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.

A ready to use PowerPoint presentation that presents teaching and learning resources of a spelling lesson on words ending in -ant, -ance and -ancy based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy. After completing this lesson students will be able to: Use suffices based on the spelling rules and meanings to form nouns and adjectives. Add suffixes –ant, -ance and –ancy to root words (verbs and nouns) to form nouns and adjectives. Use suffixes –ant, -ance and –ancy to form words and determine the meaning of new words. Use suffixes –ant, -ance and –ancy to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words. Use suffixes –ant, -ance and –ancy to form words and correct the inappropriate use of suffixes in forming new words. Create new word patterns with words ending in –ant, -ance and -ancy. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Use suffixes based on the spelling rules and meanings to form nouns and adjectives. EXERCISE 2: Add suffixes –ant, -ance and –ancy to root words (verbs and nouns) to form nouns and adjectives. EXERCISE 3: Use suffix –ant to form words and determine the meaning of new words. EXERCISE 4: Use suffix -ance to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words. EXERCISE 5: Use suffix -ancy to form words and correct the inappropriate use of suffixes in forming new words. EXERCISE 6: Create new word patterns with the given suffixes and frame sentences with them. EXERCISE 7: Use verbs and nouns as root words to form adjectives or nouns ending in -ant. EXERCISE 8: Add the suffix –ance to form nouns from verbs as the root words. EXERCISE 9: Change the nouns or adjectives ending in –ant to nouns ending in –ancy. EXERCISE 10: Change the adjectives ending in –ant to nouns ending in –ance. EXERCISE 11: Add the suffix –ant to form nouns from the root words. EXERCISE 12: Add the suffixes –ant and –ance to the root words to form nouns and adjectives. EXERCISE 13: Choose the correct word from each set of words from the brackets to fill in each blank. EXERCISE 14: Use an –ant word from the list to complete each of the sentences below. Use each word only once. EXERCISE 15: Use an -ance word from the list to complete each of the sentences below. Use each word only once. EXERCISE 16: Use an –ancy word from the list to complete each of the sentences below. Use each word only once. RUBRICS: Spelling 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 ready to use Google Slides that present teaching and learning resources of a grammar lesson on subject-verb agreement based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy. After working with these Google Slides students will be able to: Identify the parts of a sentence (subject and verb). List and explain the basic rules of subject-verb agreement. Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence. Explain the organisation of subject and verb in a sentence pattern. Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement. Create and compose new sentence patterns with subject-verb concordance. This download includes: SESSION 1: REMEMBERING EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-10) with their meanings (A-J). EXERCISE 2: Identify subjects and verbs as used in the given sentences. SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING EXERCISE 3: Watch the video - Subject-VerbAgreement - to fill in the correct form of the verbs in the brackets. EXERCISE 4: List and explain the basic rules of subject-verb agreement with examples. SESSION 3: APPLYING EXERCISE 5: Supply an appropriate linking verb that agrees with the subject in each of the sentences and the visuals. EXERCISE 6: Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence – Part 1. EXERCISE 7: Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence – Part 2. SESSION 4: ANALYSING EXERCISE 8: Explain the organisation of subject and verb in a sentence pattern. SESSION 5: EVALUATING EXERCISE 9: Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement – Part 1. EXERCISE 10: Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement – Part 2. SESSION 6: CREATING EXERCISE 11: Create and compose new sentence patterns with subject-verb concordance. DIFFERENTIATION: EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of subject-verb agreement in writing. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: Subject-Verb Agreement Rubrics HOME LEARNING: EXERCISE 13: Correct the errors in subject-verb agreement in the following paragraph. EXERCISE 14: Circle the correct verb in each of the sentences.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Punctuation – Capital Letters and Full Stops. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Boom Cards students will be able to: Consider the functions of capital letters and full stops to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text. List the similarities and the differences between capital letters and full stops. Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of capital letters and full stops in a text. Use capital letters to mark the start of a sentence, to create acronyms, to mark titles and proper nouns. Use full stops to mark sentence ends, abbreviations and decimals. Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English punctuation – capital letters and full stops – when writing. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Consider the functions of capital letters and full stops to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text. EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Use of Capital Letters and Full Stop – to complete the following table with required details to distinguish between capital letters and full stops. EXERCISE 3: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of capital letters and full stops in the given text. EXERCISE 4: Use capital letters to mark the start of a sentence, to create acronyms, to mark titles and proper nouns. EXERCISE 5: Use full stops to mark sentence ends, abbreviations and decimals. EXERCISE 6: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English punctuation – capital letters and full stops – when writing. EXERCISE 7: Punctuate the following sentences: use capital letters and full stops. EXERCISE 8: Give an example each for the following (names of-) in keeping with the capitalisation rules. EXERCISE 9: Give an example each for the following functions in keeping with the uses of full stops. EXERCISE 10: Punctuate appropriately: use full stops and capital letters. EXERCISE 11: Punctuate appropriately: use capital letters and full stops.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Punctuation – Question Marks and Exclamation Marks. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After completing this New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based lesson students will be able to: Consider the functions of question marks and exclamation marks to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text. List the similarities and the differences of question marks and exclamation marks. Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of question marks and exclamation marks. Use question marks to mark WH direct question ends; and to mark auxiliary verb question ends. Use exclamation marks to mark exclamatory sentence ends; and to mark one-word interjection ends. Use question marks and exclamation marks to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing. 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 Punctuation – Colons and Semicolons. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After completing these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based lesson students will be able to: Consider the functions of colons and semicolons to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text. List the similarities and the differences between colons and semicolons. Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of colons and semicolons in a text. Use colons to introduce a series of items in a list; to introduce mail and email references; to separate numerical expressions; to introduce a quote; and to join a clause that explains or illustrates. Use semicolons to join two independent clauses; to separate items in a series containing internal punctuation; and to precede transition in a sentence. Use colons and semicolons to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing. 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 Punctuation – Hyphens and Dashes. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement. After completing this New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based lesson students will be able to: Consider the functions of hyphens and dashes to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text. List the similarities and the differences of hyphens and dashes; en dashes and em dashes. Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of hyphens and dashes in a text. Use hyphens to join two or more words to create new meaning; to create compound words with prefixes and suffixes; to clarify meaning; to write fractions or numbers; and to indicate a missing element. Use dashes to introduce an explanation or clarification; to separate a non-essential information; to replace a pair of commas; and to replace a pair of brackets. Use hyphens and dashes to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing. 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 Grammatical Cases – Subjective, Nominative, Objective, Possessive and Vocative. 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: Recall the meanings of the terms and tabulate the changes that pronouns show in various cases. Consider the functions of grammatical cases to identify the words that exemplify the cases in the given text. Illustrate the structure and label the parts of sentences in various cases. Ensure that nouns and pronouns are in the proper case in the given text. Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in grammatical cases. Produce and present well-written sentences using nouns and pronouns in appropriate cases. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the TERMS (1-11) with their MEANINGS (A-K). EXERCISE 2: Distinguish and tabulate the changes that pronouns show in various cases. Use the pronouns in the box below. EXERCISE 3: Watch the video - What is Grammatical Case? - to list the grammatical case types with their meanings, examples and remarks. EXERCISE 4: Consider the functions of grammatical cases to identify the words that exemplify the cases in the given text. EXERCISE 5: Illustrate the structure and label the parts of sentences in subjective and nominative case. Fill in the blanks. (Part 1-4) EXERCISE 6: Test your knowledge of grammatical cases. EXERCISE 7: Test your knowledge of pronouns in grammatical cases. EXERCISE 8: Test your knowledge of direct objects in grammatical cases. EXERCISE 9: Ensure that nouns and pronouns are in the proper case. EXERCISE 10: Produce and present well-written sentences using nouns and pronouns in appropriate cases. EXERCISE 11: Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in grammatical cases. EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate the mastery of using grammatical cases in writing. RUBRICS: Grammatical Cases Rubrics EXERCISE 13: Identify the nouns or pronouns in the subjective case and state whether they are used as a subject of a verb or subject complement. EXERCISE 14: Identify the underlined words as noun or pronoun in the objective case and state whether they are used as a direct object, indirect object or object of a preposition. EXERCISE 15: Identify the nouns or pronouns in the possessive case and state whether they are used as a noun with apostrophe, possessive pronoun or possessive determiner.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Figure of Speech - Personification. 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: Identify the human characteristics ascribed to non-human entities in a given text. Define personification and state its impact on the reader. Show examples of writing that allow readers to personify non-human entities. Interpret a given text and identify the examples of personification. Evaluate a text and explain how personification is used in it. Help readers relate to non-human elements through writing and help make it more active. This Download Includes: EXERCISE 1: Identify the human characteristics given to the non-human entities (specific and non-specific) in the following sentences. EXERCISE 2: Identify the human traits (specific and general) given to non-human entities in the following sentences. EXERCISE 3: Watch the video – Personification (Literary Device) – and answer the following questions. EXERCISE 4: Identify a characteristic or an action of a human in the following pictures – Part 1-2. EXERCISE 5: Identify what is personified in these pictures and mention the human characteristic given to no-humans things. EXERCISE 6: Personification in Advertising: What is personified and how? – Part 1-2 EXERCISE 7: Give a human characteristic to a non-human thing as shown in the pictures. EXERCISE 8: Test your understanding of personification. EXERCISE 9: Answer the following questions to check your understanding of personification. EXERCISE 10: Take this test to test your knowledge of using personification. EXERCISE 11: Follow PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to evaluate the poet’s use of personification in the poem. EXERCISE 12: Follow the PEEL model to explain the reader impact of the use of personification in the poem. EXERCISE 13: Attempt any one of the following to demonstrate your understanding of personification in writing. EXERCISE 14: Identify the word that is a characteristic or an action of a human. EXERCISE 15: Fill in the blanks with examples of personification. EXERCISE 16: Identify which part of the phrase is the personification. EXERCISE 17: Identify the word or phrase that is used to personify. State what is personified and how. EXERCISE 18: Imagine “Winter” as a person knocking at the door and write a poem.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Figurative Language - Metaphor. 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 metaphor with examples. State the similarities and the differences between simile and metaphor. Examine the examples of metaphor to identify what reference they make. Interpret a text and identify the examples of metaphor. Interpret a text and explain how a metaphor has impact on the reader. Use metaphor to make my writing figurative and descriptive. 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 Figurative Language - Oxymoron. 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 oxymoron with examples. State the similarities and the differences between oxymoron, paradox and irony. Examine the examples of oxymoron to identify what reference they make. Interpret a given text and identify the examples of oxymoron and say what is oxymoronic in them. Evaluate a text and explain how oxymoron has impact on the reader. Use oxymoron to make writing poetic expressive, creative and concise. 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 Clauses - Noun or Nominal Clause. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to: Define clauses and their components. Explain the role of interrogative pronouns or adverbs and expletives in forming noun clauses. Determine the properties of noun clauses as used in sentences. Identify the noun clauses functioning as nouns in sentences. Exercise error identification to ensure that noun clauses are used correctly in writing. Use noun clauses 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 how to write an Information Text - Compare-Contrast. 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 activities, your students will be able to: Determine the organisational methods used when comparing and contrasting. Identify the clue or signal words used when comparing and contrasting. Identify the similarities and differences in the given compare-contrast texts. Plan and write the first draft of compare-contrast text on given topics. Peer evaluate a compare-contrast text with constructive feedback. Integrate the peer feedback and write a final draft of compare-contrast text. Teachers can use this resource to teach students to use compare and contrast 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

“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.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Narratives - Reading and Writing. 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 down the language features of a narrative. Write down the language strategies employed in a narrative. Apply my existing knowledge to identify the plot elements of a narrative. Use narrative techniques to plan a sample narrative. Use PQP or TAG technique to evaluate a narrative. Use precise words and phrases to write a well-structured narrative. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-7) with their meaning (A-G). EXERCISE 2: Provide one-word, one-phrase or one-sentence narration to the story in the pictures. EXERCISE 3: Identify the sentences that show the features of the given narrative. EXERCISE 4: Read the narrative and use PEE technique to identify the details that suggest the strategies used for narration. EXERCISE 5: Use Freytag’s Pyramid to identify the plot elements of the narrative. EXERCISE 6: Compare the two narratives to identify their point of view and their impact on the reader. EXERCISE 7: Analyse the given narrations to identify author’s techniques. EXERCISE 8: Read the shortest stories with lengthiest meaning and identify the story elements – Part 1-2. EXERCISE 9: Use Freytag’s Pyramid to organise a plan of a sample narration. EXERCISE 10: Use the PQP technique to evaluate the given narrative. EXERCISE 11: Use the TAG technique to evaluate the given narrative. EXERCISE 12: Use narrative structure to write the final draft of a planned narration. EXERCISE 13: Demonstrate your mastery of NARRATIVE WRITING by attempting any one of the given tasks. RUBRICS: Narrative Writing EXERCISE 14: Read the given short paragraphs. Choose the voice that you think is being used in each paragraph. Remember when writing with voice it can be: funny, serious, mysterious or frightening.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Description - Reading and Writing. 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: Identify the descriptive vocabulary and the emotive language used in a description. Identify the figurative language used in a description. Apply existing knowledge to describe the real situations. Use descriptive techniques to plan a sample description. Use PQP or TAG technique to evaluate a description. Use descriptive techniques to write a well-structured description. This download includes: EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-14) with their meaning (A-N). EXERCISE 2: Identify the adjectives, adverbs and sensory imagery (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and gustatory) used in the following description. EXERCISE 3: Identify the comparison devices (simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole) and sound devices (onomatopoeia, alliteration, internal rhyme and repletion) used in the following description. EXERCISE 4: Create word images with the given phrases. Make sure you show and not just tell. EXERCISE 5: Use the given adjectives to describe the nouns in the pictures. EXERCISE 6: Use the given adverbs to describe the action in the pictures. Follow the instructions. EXERCISE 7: Describe the following images to create word-images. Follow the instructions and use the given descriptors. EXERCISE 8: Use comparison devices to describe the following images. Follow the instructions given below. EXERCISE 9: Use sound devices to describe the following images. Follow the instructions given below. EXERCISE 10: Answer the following questions to demonstrate your knowledge of description. EXERCISE 11: Plan a sample description of a noun – a place – a beach. Use the following planning frame. EXERCISE 12: Use the following descriptive vocabulary to describe all that you see, hear, feel, taste and smell at the beach. EXERCISE 13: Frame sentences using selected descriptive vocabulary and the sample plan to make a first draft. EXERCISE 14: Use the PQP technique to evaluate the following description. EXERCISE 15: Use the TAG technique to evaluate the following description. EXERCISE 16: Make a final draft of the planned description of a noun – a place – a beach. Use the following descriptive structure. EXERCISE 17: Use your knowledge of DESCRIPTION to write on any one of the following. RUBRICS: Description Checklist and Rubrics.

This PowerPoint Presentation is 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. RUBRICS: Spelling Rubrics 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.

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Figurative Language - Simile. 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 and identify similes. State the similarities and the differences between simile and metaphor. Identify what reference similes make. Identify the use of ‘like’ and ‘as’ to form similes. Identify the use of adjectives to complete similes. Use simile to make writing figurative, descriptive, creative and entertaining. 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 resource (Google Slides) is a great tool for teaching reading comprehension skills to students. This children’s couplet tells the story of a dragon who dances and plays with children in the streets. Through reading and analyzing the poem, students can learn how to identify key elements such as rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language. They can also develop their ability to infer meaning and draw conclusions from the text. This resource is an engaging way to teach students how to read and comprehend literature. This download includes: SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS Pair-Share - Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 1) Ask-Write - Identifying the elements of poetry (Exercise 2) Write-Advance - Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3) Differentiated Tasks - Answering author’s intent questions (Exercise 4) Plenary – Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5) SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES Pair-Share – Identifying the figurative language (Exercise 6) Ask-Write - Comparing two New Years (Exercise 7) Write-Advance - Answering retrieval questions (Exercise 8) Differentiated Tasks - Answering inferential questions (Exercise 9) Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10) SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION Pair-Share - Paraphrasing the meaning of the poem (Exercise 11) Ask-Write - Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 12) Write-Advance - Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13) Differentiated Tasks - Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 14) Plenary - Writing occasional poems (Exercise 15)

“If-” by Rudyard Kipling is a didactic poem that teaches valuable life lessons through vivid imagery and storytelling. This resource is designed to help students improve their poetry reading comprehension by analyzing the poem’s structure, literary devices, and themes. Through guided discussions and activities, students will learn to identify and interpret key elements of the poem, such as metaphor, repetition, and tone. By the end of the resource, students will have a deeper understanding of the poem’s underlying message and how it applies to their own lives. This download includes: SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS Pair-Share - Inferring the meaning of the words from the context (Exercise 1) Ask-Write - Referring lines to match with given meanings (Exercise 2) Write-Advance – Identifying the elements of the poetry. (Exercise 3) Write-Progress - Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 4) Differentiated Tasks - Answering questions (Exercise 5) Plenary – Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 6) SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES Pair-Share – Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 7) Ask-Write - Identification and explanation of poetic devices (Exercise 8) Write-Advance - Comparing “yourself” with “others” (Exercise 9) Differentiated Tasks - Answering differentiated questions (Exercise 10) Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 11) SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION Pair-Share - Summarizing the meaning of the poem (Exercise 12) Ask-Write - Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 13) Write-Advance - Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 14) Differentiated Tasks - Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 15) Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 16)