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 of 11 worksheets and task cards on reference to context (RTC).
This resource includes:
Naming RTC elements in the visuals.
Identifying the meaning of a word from the context.
Identifying summary details and RTC elements.
Explaining the lines of the text with reference to context.
Demonstrating the knowledge of RTC 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 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 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 set of 11 ready to use worksheets with answers on report writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Gain knowledge of report writing techniques.
Apply authorial technique to write varied reports.
Analyse author’s use of language and the impact of it in writing a report.
Demonstrate the knowledge of reporting in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Identifying the report types of the given reports.
Identifying the parts of a newspaper report.
Writing a lead for a newspaper report.
Preparing an information report on an animal of your choice.
Demonstrating knowledge of reporting in writing.
Reporting an accident.
Answering multiple choice report writing questions.
Preparing a report based on given prompt.
Preparing a report based on bar graph.
Reporting a crime.
Identifying the key elements of a newspaper 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 unit set of scaffolding notes with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of writing a biography based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
Scaffolding Notes 2: Biography vs Autobiography Chart
Scaffolding Notes 3: Question Prompts for Biography
Scaffolding Notes 4: Writing a Biography Rubrics
Scaffolding Notes 5: Biography Graphic Organiser
Scaffolding Notes 6: Biography Structure
Scaffolding Notes 7: Biography Checklist
Scaffolding Notes 8: Biography Rubrics
Scaffolding Notes 9: Sample Biography – Helen Keller
Scaffolding Notes 10: Transitions – Connective Words
Scaffolding Notes 11: Adjective Types and Adverb Types
Scaffolding Notes 12: Active Verbs
Scaffolding Notes 13: Sentence Types
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 scaffolding notes on sentence structure.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
Scaffolding Notes 2: Phrase-Clause-Sentence Chart
Scaffolding Notes 3: Parts of a Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 4: Features of a Simple Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 5: Features of a Compound Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 6: Features of a Complex Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 7: Features of a Compound-Complex Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 8: Structure of a Simple Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 9: Structure of a Compound Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 10: Structure of a Complex Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 11: Structure of a Compound-Complex Sentence
Scaffolding Notes 12: Sentence Structure 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
Ready to use worksheets with marking scheme on teaching and learning resources of suffixes.
After solving these worksheets students will be able to:
Match the terms associated with suffixes with their meanings.
Add suffixes to high frequency and other studied words.
Create new words with common suffixes based on their meanings.
Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words.
Assess and evaluate the correct use of suffixes in forming new words.
Create new word patterns with words beginning and ending in common suffixes and frame sentences.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the TERMS (1-4) with their MEANINGS (A-D).
EXERCISE 2: Match the SUFFIXES with their MEANINGS.
EXERCISE 3: Tick the correct option to find meaning for the common suffixes.
EXERCISE 4: Create new words with each of the Greek suffixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 5: Create new words with each of the noun suffixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 6: Create new words with each of the adjective suffixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 7: Create new words with each of the verb and adverb suffixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 8: Create new words with common suffixes used in Mathematics, Science and Social Studies Curriculum.
EXERCISE 9: Interpret and verbalise the graphics by adding suffixes to the root words.
EXERCISE 10: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 1.
EXERCISE 11: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 2.
EXERCISE 12: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 3.
EXERCISE 13: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 4.
EXERCISE 14: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 5.
EXERCISE 15: Assess and evaluate the correct use of suffixes in forming new words.
EXERCISE 16: Demonstrate the mastery of using SUFFIXES in writing. Focus on remembering, understanding, analysing and creating of suffixes as suggested by the RUBRICS.
RUBRICS: Suffixes Rubrics
EXERCISE 17: Choose the correct suffix to fill in the blanks: -less, -ment, -ing, -ly, -able.
EXERCISE 18: Make words using the given suffixes to go with the meaning.
These Worksheets with Answers are 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 completing these exercises 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.
These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Punctuation – Apostrophes and Brackets. 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.
This Download Includes:
EXERCISE 1: Consider the functions of apostrophes and brackets to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text.
EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – How to Use Apostrophes – to complete the following table with required details for apostrophes.
EXERCISE 3: Watch the video – How To Apply Parentheses And Square Brackets – to complete the following table with required details for brackets.
EXERCISE 4: Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast apostrophes for possession and omission to find similarities and differences between them.
EXERCISE 5: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of apostrophes and brackets.
EXERCISE 6: Use apostrophes to show omission or contraction.
EXERCISE 7: Use apostrophes to show possession (Part 1 and 2).
EXERCISE 8: Use apostrophes to show possession and omission or contraction.
EXERCISE 9: Use brackets to enclose incidental or additional information and a brief explanation or translations (Part 1 and 2).
EXERCISE 10: Use apostrophes and brackets to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing.
RUBRICS: Apostrophes and Brackets Rubrics
EXERCISE 11: Use the information that is inside the brackets to clarify or explain, making sure the sentence still makes sense.
EXERCISE 12: Give an example each for the uses of apostrophe showing possession.
EXERCISE 13: Give an example each for the following brackets rules.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the bracket rules used in the following sentences.
EXERCISE 15: Rewrite these sentences using an apostrophe showing possession.
EXERCISE 16: Rewrite these sentences by shortening the verbs and using apostrophes of omission.
EXERCISE 17: Identify the rules used for apostrophes showing contractions.
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 10 task cards on brochure writing.
This resource includes exercises on:
Identifying purpose and audience of brochures.
Comparing and contrasting brochure panels.
Analyzing a brochure for 5 Ws.
Planning to create a brochure.
Demonstrating brochure knowledge in designing.
Writing brochures.
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 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
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