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 set of scaffolding notes that present teaching and learning resources of future tense based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Relate future tense verb forms to person and number.
Write the future tense verb stem, conjugate the verb and use it correctly in a sentence.
Use sentence stems to formulate the sentences to go with the actions in the future tense verb forms.
Analyse the function of future tense verb forms using the timeline they refer to.
Exercise error identification to notify the wrong use of future tense verb forms.
Use future tense verbs to convey various times, sequences, states and conditions.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
Scaffolding Notes 2: Future Tense Verb Form and Structure
Scaffolding Notes 3: Functions of Future Tense Verb Forms
Scaffolding Notes 4: Timeline Diagrams of Future Tense Verb Forms
Scaffolding Notes 5: Tenses 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 set of scaffolding notes that present teaching and learning resources of past tense based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Relate past tense verb forms to person and number.
Write the past tense verb stem, conjugate the verb and use it correctly in a sentence.
Use sentence stems to formulate the sentences to go with the actions in the past tense verb forms.
Analyse the function of past tense verb forms using the timeline they refer to.
Exercise error identification to notify the wrong use of past tense verb forms.
Use past tense verbs to convey various times, sequences, states and conditions.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
Scaffolding Notes 2: Past Tense Form and Structure
Scaffolding Notes 3: Functions of Past Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 4: Timeline Diagrams of Past Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 5: Tenses 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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on reading strategies to identify purpose, context, and style while analyzing the text.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand and determine the purpose, the context, and the style of a text.
Discuss author’s purpose, context clues, and text styles.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of purpose, context, and style in writing.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Purpose, Context, Style
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - What is Purpose, Context, and Style?
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – P-C-S Analysis
Success Criteria - Purpose Context Style Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Author’s Purpose, Context Clues, Text Style
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 - PQP Technique
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LIT.W.6-8.4/5/10/RI.6.6/W.9-10.1d/10/W.11-12.4/5
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 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 Comprehensive Presentation that includes assistance:
1. To recognize how data can be used to identify and characterize the classroom.
2. To interpret a class set of data using MIDYIS graphs.
3. To distinguish between effective and ineffective teaching methods for the individual.
This PowerPoint Presentation is 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 compact review of poem writing organized for quick referencing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Poetry Structures
Poetry Elements
Poetry Forms
Tips to Write a Poem
Sample Poems
Assessment Rubrics
Here are some 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
This compact review of Persuasion for quick referencing is perfect for teaching reading and writing. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
Identify the elements of a persuasive structure.
List down the language techniques employed in a persuasion.
Identify the features of a persuasion.
Follow persuasive techniques to plan a sample persuasion.
Follow PQP or TAG technique to evaluate a persuasion.
Follow persuasive techniques to write a well-structured persuasion.
This download includes:
SN 1: Persuasive Structure
SN 2: Persuasive Language Techniques
SN 3: PQP and TAG Technique
SN 4: Persuasive Prompt
SN 5: Persuasive Checklist
SN 6: Persuasive Writing Rubrics
SN 7: Sample Persuasion
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 worksheets with answers which present teaching and learning resources of past tense based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Relate past tense verb forms to person and number.
Write the past tense verb stem, conjugate the verb and use it correctly in a sentence.
Use sentence stems to formulate the sentences to go with the actions in the past tense verb forms.
Analyse the function of past tense verb forms using the timeline they refer to.
Exercise error identification to notify the wrong use of past tense verb forms.
Use past tense verbs to convey various times, sequences, states and conditions.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Use the verb “blow” to give an example each for the past tense verb structure.
EXERCISE 2: Relate past tense verb forms to person and number – Part 1.
EXERCISE 3: Relate past tense verb forms to person and number – Part 2.
EXERCISE 4: Use the given verbs to go with the past tense form stated in order to fill in the blanks.
EXERCISE 5: Select the correct option to demonstrate the formulation and usage of past tense verb forms.
EXERCISE 6: Use the sentence stems to formulate sentences to go with the actions in the pictures and the past tense verb forms.
EXERCISE 7: Select the correct option to demonstrate the formulation and usage of past tense verb forms.
EXERCISE 8: Analyse the functions of past tense verb forms with examples.
EXERCISE 9: Analyse the functions of past tense forms with timeline diagrams.
EXERCISE 10: Analyse the functions of past tense verb forms using the timeline they refer to.
EXERCISE 11: Recognise and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tenses.
EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate past tense formulation and usage in writing.
EXERCISE 13: Use your knowledge of past verb tenses to write about one of the given topics.
EXERCISE 14: Change the verbs into their corresponding past tenses.
EXERCISE 15: Change the verbs into their corresponding past tenses.
A compact review of prompts used for writing organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
6 Steps to Use Writing Prompts
Prompts Types
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about procedures followed for writing using prompts, thereby helping them to enhance their language and 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 presentation of unit plans with 5 sessions on prose comprehension of a fictional story, “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant.
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: Author and Summary of the Story
SESSION 1: STORY SETTING AND SETTING DESCRIPTION
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
SESSION 2: STORY CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION
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
SESSION 3: STORY PLOT AND PLOT DEVELOPMENT
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
SESSION 4: STORY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
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
RTC Template (Scaffold Notes 18)
RTC Prompt (Scaffold Notes 19)
Collaborative Tasks:
Think-Pair: Identifying summary elements
Pair-Share: Writing a summary
Ask-Write: Identifying RTC elements for the given lines
Write-Advance: Explaining the line with reference to context
This compact review of Irony for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Verbal, Situational and Dramatic Irony. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.
After studying this information 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.
This download includes:
SN 1: Vocabulary Overview
SN 2: Irony Types and Reader Impact
SN 3: Irony Types and their Functions
SN 4: Irony Examples
SN 5: Irony in Literature
SN 6: Irony 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 handout that explains the criteria to be noted when answering comprehension questions.
This resource helps learners to comprehend the textual information in order to understand and answer - direct, open-ended, close-ended, challenging, and critical thinking - questions.
Teachers can use this cheat sheet as a ready reference material to help learners to improve their comprehension skills.
A compact review of characterization organized for quick referencing.
This resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Template and Prompt
Character Description Adjectives Based on Senses
Adjectives to Describe a Person
Character Description Guide
Character Types
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
This compact review of Proofreading for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Editing your Writing. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.
After going through this information students will be able to:
Identify the correct meaning of proofreading symbols or marks.
List the components of a proofreading checklist.
Apply proofreading symbols to identify the appropriate use of them in a text.
Identify grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors in a given text.
Fix grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors in a given text.
Use proofreading process to aid cohesion in writing.
This download includes:
SN 1: Symbols of Proofreading
SN 2: Marking Marks
SN 3: Proofreading Checklist
SN 4: Proofreading Rubrics
SN 5: SWAPS: Proofreading Guide
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 tips for understanding texts used for text analysis as reading strategies organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Word, Phrase, Clause, and Sentence Chart
Reading for Understanding Tips
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about text analysis, 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 compact review of text comparison criteria used for text analysis as reading strategies organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Text Comparison Criteria
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about text analysis, 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 compact review of skim, scan, and close read organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Skim, Scan, Close Read Chart
Reading Strategies
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about skimming, scanning, and close reading strategies, thereby helping them to enhance their comprehension 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
An unit plan with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman.
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:
Poem and Summary (Scaffold Notes 1)
Poet, Introduction, and Setting (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 - Vocabulary Check (Exercise 1)
Ask-Write - Identification of Poetry Elements (Exercise 2)
Write-Advance – Critical Appreciation of the Poem (Exercise 3)
Assessment - Poetry Analysis Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 7)
Differentiated Tasks - Planning to write poems (Exercise 4)
Plenry – Selecting correct options for poem comprehension (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)
Poetic Devices Prompts (Scaffold Notes 11)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share – Meaning of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Ask-Write - Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
Write-Advance - Explanation of the Poetic devices as used (Exercise 8)
Assessment - Poetic Devices in Poetry Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 12)
Differentiated Tasks - Creating poems (Exercise 9)
Plenary – Selecting correct options for poem comprehension (Exercise 10)
SESSION 3: POETRY ANNOTATION AND REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Discussion:
Annotation Guide (Scaffold Notes 13)
Annotation Template and Prompt (Scaffold Notes 14)
Explanation Prompts for Figures of Speech (Scaffold Notes 15)
Collaborative Group Tasks:
Pair-Share - Summarizing the meaning (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 16)
Differentiated Tasks - Analyzing poems (Exercise 14)
Plenary - Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 15)
Home Learning – Online Quizzes and Online Comprehension Passages
CCSS - 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 – An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats.
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)
Summary and 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 - Writing poems with elegy elements (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 speaker 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 - Writing comprehension questions (Exercise 14)
Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Home Learning: Comprehension questions (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
