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 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 set of scaffolding notes on verb forms in tenses.
After studying these scaffolding notes students will be able to:
Relate verb forms in tenses to person and number.
Write the verb stem, conjugate the verb and use it correctly in a sentence.
Use sentence stems to formulate the sentences to go with the actions and the tense forms.
Analyse the function of tenses using the timeline they refer to.
Recognise the usage of verbs in a piece of writing, identify the correct tense and the perspective.
Demonstrate tense formulation and usage in writing.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
Scaffolding Notes 2: Present Tense Forms and Structure
Scaffolding Notes 3: Past Tense Form and Structure
Scaffolding Notes 4: Future Tense Form and Structure
Scaffolding Notes 5: Functions of Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 6: Timeline Diagrams of Present Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 7: Timeline Diagrams of Past Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 8: Timeline Diagrams of Future Tense Forms
Scaffolding Notes 9: Tenses Rubrics
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
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 an Answer Key perfect for teaching Modal Verbs – can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, have to, will and would. 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.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-3) with their meanings (A-C).
EXERCISE 2: Consider the positions to identify the modal verbs that exemplify their functions in the given text.
EXERCISE 3: Watch the video - Modals, Modal Verbs, Types of Modal Verbs: Useful List & Examples – to list the types of modal verbs with examples.
EXERCISE 4: Consider the types to identify the modal verbs that exemplify their expressions in the given text.
EXERCISE 5: Use the sentence stems to verbalise the actions to go with the functions of modal verbs.
EXERCISE 6: Complete the conversations using appropriate modal verbs.
EXERCISE 7: Form and use modal verbs to express ability, possibility, advice, obligation and request.
EXERCISE 8: Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal verbs.
EXERCISE 9: Ensure that modal verbs are in the proper position in the given text.
EXERCISE 10: Identify the impact of the use of modal verbs in writing.
EXERCISE 11: Form and use modal verbs to convey various conditions.
EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate the knowledge of modal verbs.
EXERCISE 13: Identify the appropriate use of modal verbs in writing.
EXERCISE 14: Create new sentences with modal verbs to express a particular purpose.
EXERCISE 15: Produce well-written sentences using modal verbs in correct positions.
RUBRICS: Model Verbs Rubrics
EXERCISE 16: Identify the modal verbs from the travel document and say what they express.
EXERCISE 17: Read the following advice extract and identify the modal verbs.
EXERCISE 18: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the modals. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 19: Fill in the correct form of can, could or be able to. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 20: Fill in the correct form of shall, should or ought in the following sentences. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 21: Fill in the correct form of may or might. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 22: Fill in the correct form of will or would. You may have to use negative form in certain examples.
EXERCISE 23: Fill in the blanks using suitable modal verbs.
EXERCISE 24: Identify the errors in the use of modal verbs in the following passages and write the correction.
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.
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 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
A set of 10 worksheets with answers on sonnets.
This Resource includes:
EX 1: Vocabulary Checklist.
EX 2: Shakespearean Sonnet Structure.
EX 3: Miltonic Sonnet Structure.
EX 4: Compare and Contrast Sonnets.
EX 5: Writing Sonnets.
EX 6: Read Sonnets to Answer Questions.
EX 7: Test Understanding of Sonnets.
EX 8: Read Sonnets to Answer Challenging Questions.
EX 9: Paraphrasing Sonnets.
EX 10: Providing Modern Text to Sonnets.
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 bunch of 10 worksheets and task cards on plot elements of a story.
This Resource Includes:
Identifying conflict types.
Suggesting conflict and plot types for genres.
Identifying plot elements.
Developing plot and describing.
Demonstrating knowledge of plot in writing.
Matching plot elements with their meaning.
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 and task-cards on imaginative writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Recall imaginative writing techniques.
Apply authorial technique to spur imagination.
Demonstrate imagination skill in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Picturing a situation with imagination.
Imagining a story hidden in the given images.
Responding to the prompting questions.
Using given prompts to spur imagination.
Demonstrating skill of imagination in writing.
Following the prompt to complete a story.
Answering multiple choice questions on imaginative writing.
Imagining and answering.
Describing what you see in your imagination.
Thinking out of the box.
Using prompts to give vent to imagination.
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 and task cards on suspense story writing.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Acquire knowledge of the techniques that create sustaining suspense.
Analyse plot diagram for a suspense story.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of suspense in writing.
This download includes worksheets on:
Match the lesson vocabulary with their meanings.
Writing what most likely would happen next to given scenes.
Using the graphic organizer to plan and narrate a small suspense story.
Reading the story, “Velvet Ribbon” to visualize final scene.
Demonstrating the skill of suspense in writing.
Reading the instruction and selecting the appropriate answer.
Thinking of an alternate ending with suspense to the given story.
Thinking of a story, “The Student Who Cried Teacher” to pull a false alarm.
Choosing a set of three elements to write a suspense story.
Writing a suspense story on given situation.
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 of worksheets with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of pronoun types based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING: Recall and list pronoun types.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING: Infer and grasp the meaning of pronoun types.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING: Apply and demonstrate the accurate knowledge of pronoun types.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING: Analyse and infer the placement of pronoun types in sentences.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING: Assess and evaluate the use of pronoun types in sentences.
SESSION 6 - CREATING: Create and compose new sentence patterns with pronoun types.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Name and define the pronoun types with examples.
EXERCISE 2: Interpret and verbalise pictures of pronouns using the listed pronouns.
EXERCISE 3: Discover and ensure that pronouns are in the proper case - subjective, objective and possessive - in relation to the person, number and gender in the pronoun signs.
EXERCISE 4: Investigate and identify vague pronouns: ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents.
EXERCISE 5: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and case.
EXERCISE 6: Produce and present well-written sentences with appropriate pronoun types.
EXERCISE 7: Demonstrate the mastery of using PRONOUN TYPES in writing.
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of pronoun types.
EXERCISE 9: Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns from the box.
EXERCISE 10: Rewrite the following paragraph using pronouns.
EXERCISE 11: Identify pronouns from the following sentences and state their types.
EXERCISE 12: Identify the type of pronouns in RED from the sentences given below.
EXERCISE 13: Fill in the blanks with the type of pronoun mentioned in the brackets.
EXERCISE 14: Fill in the blanks with interrogative pronouns - what, which, who, whom, whose – as specified.
EXERCISE 15: Rewrite the following paragraph, substituting an appropriate pronoun for each italicized word or group of words.