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 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 bundle of products on Prose Comprehension that deals with:
Story Setting
Characterization
Story Plot
Story Analysis
Reference to the Context
This bundle includes classroom resources on short stories:
After Twenty Years by O. Henry
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Harry by Rosemary Timperley
The Last Leaf by O. Henry
Two Geniuses
The Woman on Platform No 8 by Ruskin Bond
The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner
A Difficult Customer by William Roland Lee
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
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 bundle of products on poetry comprehension that deal with:
Critical Appreciation of the Poem
Identification of Poetic Devices used in the Poem
Annotation of the Poem Lines
This download includes unit lesson plans and resources on:
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Sympathy by Charles Mackay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Lee Frost
The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Dragon Dance by Max Fatchen
A thing of Beauty by John Keats
Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
Thought Fox by Ted Hughes
On His Blindness John Milton
Tyger Tyger by William Blake
The Enchanted Shirt by John Hay
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
King Bruce and the Spider by Eliza Cook
A Girl called Golden by David Bateson
The Brook by Alfred Tennyson
If- by Rudyard Kipling
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
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 Presentation on 87 Creative Activities to Think Out of the Box which can be used as Starters, Middles, and Plenaries in an ESL Classroom. Teachers can use these to enhance the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of the learners.
A lesson presentation of unit plans with 5 sessions on prose comprehension of a fictional story, “A Difficult Customer” by William Roland Lee.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1: Spot the setting elements and describe the setting.
SESSION 2: Name the characters and make a character sketch.
SESSION 3: Discover the plot elements and develop the plot.
SESSION 4: Analyse the text to make a critical appreciation.
SESSION 5: Examine the lines from the text with reference to context.
Lesson Preview
Fictional Story: A Difficult Customer by William Roland Lee
Author and Summary of the Story
SESSION 1: STORY SETTING AND SETTING DESCRIPTION
Discussion:
Setting Features (Scaffold Notes 1)
Setting Characteristics (Scaffold Notes 2)
Setting Elements (Scaffold Notes 3)
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Vocabulary check
Ask-Write: Identifying setting elements of the given story
Write-Advance: Describing the setting of the story
Assessment: Setting Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 4)
Differentiated Tasks: Creating story setting
Plenary: Selecting best option to answer setting questions
SESSION 2: STORY CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Discussion:
Character Types (Scaffold Notes 5)
Character Description Adjectives Based on Senses (Scaffold Notes 6)
Character Description Guide (Scaffold Notes 7)
Adjectives to Describe Personality Traits (Scaffold Notes 8)
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Spotting the traits of the characters in the story
Ask-Write: Identifying one of the main character’s elements in the story
Write-Advance: Making a character sketch
Assessment: Characterization Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 9)
Differentiated Tasks: Creating characters for the story
Plenary: Selecting best option to answer characterization questions
SESSION 3: STORY PLOT AND PLOT DEVELOPMENT
Discussion:
Plot Types (Scaffold Notes 10)
Conflict Types (Scaffold Notes 11)
Plot Diagram (Scaffold Notes 12)
Plot Template (Scaffold Notes 13)
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying plot elements of the story
Ask-Write: Identifying plot description elements in the story
Write-Advance: Developing the plot of the story
Assessment: Plot Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 14)
Differentiated Tasks: Making a story plot
Plenary: Selecting the best option to answer plot questions
SESSION 4: STORY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Discussion:
Story Components (Scaffold Notes 15)
Story Analysis Guide (Scaffold Notes 16)
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying story elements by answering questions
Ask-Write: Identifying story elements of the story
Write-Advance: Making a critical appreciation of the story
SESSION 5: REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:
RTC Template (Scaffold Notes 18)
RTC Prompt (Scaffold Notes 19)
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying summary elements
Ask-Write: Identifying RTC elements for the given lines
Write-Advance: Explaining the line with reference to context
This bundle of 10 products (Scaffolding Notes) is perfect for teaching Vocabulary - Connectives, Transitions, Synonyms, Antonyms, Determiners, Modal Verbs, Articles, Compound Words, Imperative Verbs and Adjectives. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these activities that are well-planned for student engagement.
This bundle includes Scaffolding Notes on:
Modal Verbs: 4 Handouts
Determiners: 6 Handouts
Compound Words: 11 Handouts
Definite and Indefinite Articles: 8 Handouts
Imperative (Bossy) Verbs: 10 Handouts
Synonyms and Antonyms: 7 Handouts
Connectives and Transitions: 4 Handouts
Adjective Order: 9 Handouts
Compound Adjectives: 6 Handouts
Adjectives - Degrees of Comparison: 11 Handouts
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A bundle of lessons and resources on reading stories and poems for analysis.
This bundle includes:
Story Setting
Story Plot
Characterization
Story Analysis
Reference to Context
Poetry Analysis
Poetic Devices in Poetry
Poetry Annotation
Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
To challenge early finishers
For effective tutoring
As ESL stations and sub tubs
As holiday work and homework
For small group collaborations
For an end of unit assessments
For reinforcement and enrichment
A bundle of 20 writing scaffold notes for ESL students.
This download includes:
Imaginative Writing
Narrative Writing
Biography Writing
Article Writing
Report Writing
Argumentative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Diary Writing
Persuasive Writing
Summary Writing
Review Writing
Paragraph Writing
Dialogue Writing
Creating Writing
Autobiography Writing
Factual Description
Play-Script Writing
Poem Writing
Using Textual Prompts to Write
Non-chronological 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
This Resource Includes 9 Presentations on Fun Activities:
1. Catch a Phrase
2. Fun Starters
3. Fun Middles
4. Fun Plenaries
5. Creative Quiz
6. Critical Thinking Activities
7. Did you Know?
8. Problem Solving Activities
9. Think out of the Box
A compact review of play-script organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Play-script Features
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about play-script writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on play-script writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand the conventions of a play script to use them in writing.
Develop dialogues for a play script that exposes characters and situation.
Demonstrate the knowledge of play script using the techniques of dialogue writing.
This Resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Play-script
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Play-script Checklist
Lesson Starter: Writing dialogues to images.
Discussion: Play-script Features
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Turning flat dialogues into an exciting story.
Think-Write: Adding scene description and stage directions.
Write-Share: Adding dialogues and reporting verbs.
Mini-Plenary: 4 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Writing scenes for given situations.
Extensions: Writing dialogues for a story.
Plenary: Selecting right answers to answer play-script questions.
Home Learning:
Preparing play-scripts for dialogues.
Selecting best option to answer play-script questions.
Turning given story into a play script.
Rewriting the narrative poem as a play script.
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
This Unit Plan is perfect for teaching Sensory Imagery – Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory and Tactile. 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 correct definition of imagery types – visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile.
Examine word-pictures used as imagery in a given text.
Show examples of writing that allow readers to visualise, hear, touch, taste or smell in their imagination.
Interpret word-images sensory imagery creates in a text and explain the author’s purpose in using it.
Evaluate author’s use of imagery to create word images in a text.
Use sensory imagery to create vivid descriptions and word images in 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
A Presentation on Fun Plenaries that can last about ten minutes, but could be shorter, to assess the learning at the end of a lesson.
A Plenary that:
1. Refers back to and consolidates the most important learning points of the lesson;
2. Refers back to the learning intentions stated at the beginning of the lesson;
3. Puts the learning in context, by linking it both to prior learning and to the coming stages;
4. Gives opportunities for informal assessment;
5. Quick checks learning that has taken place;
6. Helps you judge the next steps;
7. Enables you to plan the next lesson.
Teachers can use these plenaries to assess the learning as well as to get done with their lesson in the classroom.
This resource covers the integral, surface and deep features of a steam lesson. It contains full-on activities and assessments to cover the skills of literacy in an easy, structured, cover-your-bases system. It includes everything you need to get going with a steam lesson in your classroom.
Lesson Objectives:
• Recall the definition and meaning of STEAM.
• Analyse the features of sequential information text type.
• Explore the structure of sequential text type.
• Understand STEAM Pyramid.
• Incorporate STEAM in a sequential information text on a given topic.
This Resource Includes:
1. Detailed Lesson Plan
2. Lesson Starter - Text Samples with Answers
3. Sequential Text Structure
4. Sequential Text Sample
5. Sequence Template
6. Assessment Rubrics
7. STEAM Pyramid
8. The Leaning Triangle
Teachers can use this to enhance the cross-curriculum skills of the learners, while the teachers themselves can use this to incorporate STEAM into their daily lesson.
This Unit Lesson is perfect for teaching Definite and Indefinite Articles – ‘A’, ‘An’ and ‘The’. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these self-grading exercises that are gamified for student engagement.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
To recognise and recall types of articles.
To describe and explain the uses of articles.
To use rules of placing definite and indefinite articles.
To draw links between definite and indefinite articles.
To justify the right use of articles as determiners.
To produce sentences placing articles before a noun.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Boom Cards students will be able to:
Classify articles as definite (the) and indefinite (‘a’ and ‘an’).
Identify the use of ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ and zero article before a given noun.
Place ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ and zero article correctly before a given noun.
Use ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ to determine a given noun.
Identify the errors to ensure the correct use of ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ and zero articles as determiners.
Create new sentences using ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ and zero article that determine nouns.
A compact review of poetry analysis organized for quick referencing.
This resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Poetry Structures
Poetry Forms
Poetry Analysis Guide
Poetry Analysis Template
Critical Appreciation Prompt
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
Unit plans with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation (session 1).
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem (session 2).
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context (session 3).
Lesson Preview:
Poet and Introduction (Scaffold Notes 1)
Poem and Summary (Scaffold Notes 2)
SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Discussion:
Poetry Forms (Scaffold Notes 3)
Poetry Structures (Scaffold Notes 4)
Poetry Analysis Guide (Scaffold Notes 5)
Poetry Analysis Template (Scaffold Notes 6)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Inferring the meaning of the words from the context of the poem (Exercise 1)
Ask-Write - Referring lines to match with given meanings (Exercise 2)
Write-Advance – Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Assessment - Poetry Analysis Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 7)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering questions (Exercise 4)
Plenary – Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5)
SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES IN POETRY AND THEIR USAGE
Discussion:
Comparison Devices (Scaffold Notes 8)
Sound Devices (Scaffold Notes 9)
Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 10)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share – Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Ask-Write - Identification and explanation of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
Write-Advance - Inferring clues for characters in the poem (Exercise 8)
Assessment - Poetic Devices in Poetry Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 11)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering differentiated questions based on poem theme (Exercise 9)
Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10)
SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:
Annotation Guide (Scaffold Notes 12)
Annotation Template and Prompt (Scaffold Notes 13)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Summarizing 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)
Assessment - Annotation Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 14)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Home Learning: Online Exercises
Common Core Standards - ELA.LITERACY.RL.6-8.1-4
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
Unit plans with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – The Enchanted Shirt by John Milton Hay.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation (session 1).
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem (session 2).
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context (session 3).
Lesson Preview:
Summary, Poet, and Introduction (Scaffold Notes 1)
Poem (Scaffold Notes 2)
SESSION 1: POETRY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
Discussion:
Poetry Forms (Scaffold Notes 3)
Poetry Structures (Scaffold Notes 4)
Poetry Analysis Guide (Scaffold Notes 5)
Poetry Analysis Template (Scaffold Notes 6)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Inferring the meaning of the words from the context of the poem (Exercise 1)
Ask-Write - Writing the lines that refer to the given ideas (Exercise 2)
Write-Advance – Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Assessment - Poetry Analysis Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 7)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering questions (Exercise 4)
Plenary – Answering poetry elements questions (Exercise 5)
SESSION 2: POETIC DEVICES IN POETRY AND THEIR USAGE
Discussion:
Comparison Devices (Scaffold Notes 8)
Sound Devices (Scaffold Notes 9)
Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 10)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share – Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Ask-Write - Identification and explanation of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
Write-Advance - Comparing and contrasting the king before and after (Exercise 8)
Assessment - Poetic Devices in Poetry Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 11)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering differentiated questions based on poem theme (Exercise 9)
Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (Exercise 10)
SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:
Annotation Guide (Scaffold Notes 12)
Annotation Template and Prompt (Scaffold Notes 13)
Explanation Prompts for Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 14)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Summarizing 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)
Assessment - Annotation Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 15)
Differentiated Tasks - Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Home Learning: Preparing a play-script (Exercise 16)
Common Core Standards - ELA.LITERACY.RL.6-8.1-4
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
This Unit Lesson Plan is perfect for teaching Rhetorical Sound Devices – Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme and Meter. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. You and your students will love these ready to use resources that are well planned for student engagement.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy based activities students will be able to:
Match the terms associated with rhetorical sound devices with their meanings.
Identify the words that exemplify the rhetorical sound devices in the text.
Form rhetoric statements to go with the graphics that exemplify the rhetorical sound devices.
Interpret the rhetorical sound devices used in the text and explain the author’s purpose in using them.
Identify the impact of the use of rhetorical sound devices in the given text.
Analyse the given text to interpret the rhetorical sound devices used in them.
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