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 bundle of 4 resources on alternate ending story writing.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Sentence Elements, Rubrics
Worksheets, Exercises, and Task Cards
Lesson Plan with Resources
Ready to use PowerPoint Presentation
Teachers can use these ready-made resources 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 bundle of 4 products on verb forms in tenses.
After working with these worksheets, the 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 worksheets with answers on:
Verb Forms in Tenses
Present Tense
Past Tense
Future Tense
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 bundle of 4 products (Worksheets with answer Key) is perfect for teaching Adjectives - Types, Compounds, Order and Degrees of Comparison. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.
This bundle includes Worksheets on:
Adjective Types: 18 Exercises
Adjective Order: 18 Exercises
Degrees of Comparison: 24 Exercises
Compound Adjectives: 21 Exercises
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
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This bundle of 8 (Scaffolding Notes) is perfect for teaching Word Classes - Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exciting exercises that are excellent for student engagement.
This bundle includes Scaffolding Notes on:
Noun Types: 5 Handouts
Pronoun Types: 5 Handouts
Adjective Types: 6 Handouts
Verb Types; 6 Handouts
Adverb Types: 5 Handouts
Conjunction Types: 5 Handouts
Preposition Types: 6 Handouts
Parts of Speech: 4 Handouts
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Boom Cards: 8 Decks
Google Slides: 8 Presentations
PowerPoint Presentations: 8 Lessons
Unit Lesson Plans: 8 Units
Worksheets with Answers: 8 Sets
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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 PowerPoint Presentation on a complete set of Rubrics for Reading, Speaking, Listening, Reading, Language, and Skills in an ESL Classroom.
This Resource Covers Rubrics on:
Reading -
Skimming, Scanning, and Close Reading
Inferring
Comprehension
Text Comparison
Text Review
Text Audience, Register, Tone
Text Purpose, Context, Style
PEE Paragraph to Comment
Persuasive and Expository Texts
Story Setting
Story Characters
Story Plot
Story Components
Story Analysis
Reference to Context
Poetic Devices in Poetry
Poetry Analysis
Poetry Annotation
Figurative Language -
Figures of Speech
Elegy
Imagery
Irony
Language and Grammar -
Sentence Structure
Sentences by Function
Sentence Order
Phrases and Clauses
Active and Passive Voice
Direct and Indirect Speech
Parts of Speech
Noun Types
Pronoun Types
Verb Types
Subject-Verb Agreement
Prepositions
Punctuation
Tenses
Vocabulary -
Lesson Vocabulary
Articles
Compound Adjectives
Compound Words
Connectives
Degrees of Comparison
Homophones Homonyms Homographs
Prefixes and Suffixes
Spelling
Synonyms and Antonyms
Word Order Adjectives
Speaking and Listening -
Choral Recitation
Debating
Interviewing
Rhetorical Devices in Public Speaking
Role Play
Spoken vs Written English
Use of Prompts to Speak
Listening to Respond
Writing -
Argumentation
Newspaper Article
Biography and Autobiography
Creative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Dialogue Writing
Diary Entry
Imaginative Writing
Narrative Writing
Paragraphing
Persuasive Writing
Play Script Writing
Poem Writing
Report Writing
Review Writing
Summary Writing
Using Prompts to Write
Information Text -
Information Text
Description
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Problem and Solution
Sequencing
Writing for Purpose -
Story Writing
Digital Story Telling
Letter Writing
Drafting
Editing and Proofreading
Form Filling
Note Taking
Skills -
Advertisements
Brochure Designing
Comic Strips
Poster Making
Skills - Social and Cognitive
This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Grammar - Direct and Indirect Speech. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.
After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
List the similarities and differences between direct and indirect speech.
Identify the changes seen in adverbs, modal verbs and pronouns when converting direct into indirect speech.
Identify the structure of the sentences when the speech is direct and indirect.
Test their understanding of the changes seen in verb tenses when converting direct into indirect speech.
Use commas, inverted commas and relevant end punctuation to mark direct speech and quotations.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue to develop experiences, events and characters.
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 41 Critical Thinking Activities to Think Differently which can be used as Starters, Middles, and Plenaries in a Classroom. Teachers can use these to enhance the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of the learners and to help them to think differently.
Powerpoint presentation of 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 5 sessions on prose comprehension of a fictional story, “Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy.
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
SESSION 2: STORY CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION
SESSION 3: STORY PLOT AND PLOT DEVELOPMENT
SESSION 4: STORY ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
SESSION 5: REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Home Learning: Comprehension Questions
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 4 resources on using rhetorical devices in a speech.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Devices, Techniques, Rubrics
Worksheets, Exercises, and Task Cards
Lesson Plan with Resources
Ready to use PowerPoint Presentation
Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:
To challenge early finishers
For effective tutoring
As ESL stations and sub tubs
As holiday work and homework
For small group collaborations
For an end of unit assessments
For reinforcement and enrichment
A ready to use PowerPoint presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of prefixes and suffixes based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
Match the terms associated with prefixes and suffixes with their meanings.
Add prefixes and suffixes to high frequency and other studied words.
Create new words with common prefixes and suffixes based on their meanings.
Use prefixes and suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words.
Assess and evaluate the correct use of prefixes and suffixes in forming new words.
Create new word patterns with words beginning and ending in common affixes and frame sentences.
This download includes:
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING
EXERCISE 1: Match the TERMS (1-4) with their MEANINGS (A-D).
EXERCISE 2-3: Match the PREFIXES and SUFFIXES with their MEANINGS.
EXERCISE 4-5: Tick the correct option to find meaning for the common prefixes and suffixes.
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING
EXERCISE 6: Watch the video – Prefixes and Suffixes - and answer the following questions.
SESSION 3: APPLYING
EXERCISE 7-10: Create new words with each of the prefixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 11-14: Create new words with each of the suffixes based on their meaning.
EXERCISE 15-16: Create new words with common prefixes and suffixes used in Mathematics, Science and Social Studies Curriculum.
EXERCISE 17-19: Add both prefixes and suffixes to root words to create new words. Take note of the letters to be dropped, added or doubled when creating new words.
SESSION 4: ANALYSING
EXERCISE 20: Interpret and verbalise the graphics by adding prefixes or suffixes to the root words.
EXERCISE 21-23: Use prefixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 1-3.
EXERCISE 24-28: Use suffixes to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words – Part 1-5.
SESSION 5: EVALUATING
EXERCISE 29-30: Assess and evaluate the correct use of prefixes and suffixes in forming new words – Part 1-2.
SESSION 6: CREATING
EXERCISE 31: Demonstrate the mastery of using PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES in writing. Focus on remembering, understanding, analysing and creating of prefixes and suffixes as suggested by the RUBRICS.
RUBRICS: Prefixes and Suffixes Rubrics
HOME LEARNING:
EXERCISE 32-33: Choose the correct prefix and suffix to fill in the blanks.
EXERCISE 34-35: Make words using the given prefixes and suffixes to go with the meaning.
EXERCISE 36: List all the words from the following extract that are in the following pattern - prefix-root word-suffix.
A PowerPoint Presentation of unit plan with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
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).
This unit includes:
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 - Completing summary (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)
Plenary – 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 and filling blanks (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 exercises
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
A lesson presentation with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – A Thing of Beauty by John Keats.
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 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 - Listing things of beauty and things of pain (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 - Answering questions with short answers (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: Answering inferential 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
A ready to use lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on tenses and verb forms.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Determine the structure of the verb forms in tenses.
Relate verb forms in tenses to person and number.
Demonstrate tense formulation and usage in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Present, Past, Future
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links - Science, Math, Social Studies
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - All Tenses
Success Criteria - Tenses Checklist
Lesson Starter: Identifying the verbs and naming their tenses of the given sentences.
Discussion:
Present Tense Structure
Past Tense Structure
Future Tense Structure
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Using sentence stems to write sentences to go with pictures and resent tense.
Think-Write: Using sentence stems to write sentences to go with the pictures and past tense.
Write-Share: Using sentence stems to write sentences to go with pictures and future tense.
Mini-Plenary: 3 Online Exercises
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating verb tense knowledge in writing.
Extensions: Changing the given sentence into the past perfect tense.
Plenary: Reading the instruction and selecting the appropriate answer.
Home Learning:
Underlining the present perfect and past perfect verbs in each sentence.
Changing the verbs into their corresponding past tenses.
Changing the verbs into their corresponding present tenses.
Changing the verbs into their corresponding future tenses.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Language - 6-8.1a-d/3a
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 resource covers the integral, surface and deep features of Theme-Based Learning. It contains full-on activities and assessments to cover the skills of literature in an easy, structured, cover-your-bases system. It includes everything you need to get going with theme-based learning in your classroom for 2 weeks (13 days).
This resource includes:
Synopsis: Act 1 and 2
1 STORY ANALYSIS
• Lesson Plan
• Story Analysis Guide
• Critical Appreciation Guide & Format
• Story Analysis Rubrics & Details
2 STORY SETTING
• Lesson Plan
• Setting Template
• Setting Description Format
• Story Setting Details
• Story Setting Rubrics
• Story Setting Exercises - 4
3 CHARACTERIZATION
• Lesson Plan
• Character Types Chart
• Character Description
• Character Description Guide
• Adjectives to Describe
• Character Description Template
• Identifying Character Traits
• Character Description Rubrics
• Character Description Exercises - 2
4 STORY PLOT
• Lesson Plan
• Plot Elements
• Plot Format
• Plot Elements Details
• Plot Summary
5 REVIEW WRITING
• Lesson Plan
• Review Types Chart
• Movie Review Guidelines
• Book Review Guidelines
• Place Review Guidelines
• Sample Reviews
• Review Rubrics
• Review Exercises - 4
6 LETTER WRITING
• Lesson Plan
• Word Bank
• Letter Rubrics
• Sample Letter
• Letter Prompts
• Letter Format
7 ALTERNATIVE RESOLUTION STORY
• Lesson Plan
• Fable - Hare and Tortoise
• Story Components
• Story – Velvet Ribbon
• Genre Features
• Story Rubrics
• Story Exercises - 5
8 POEM WRITING
• Lesson Plan
• Poem Elements
• How to write a Poem
• Poem Rubrics
• Sound Devices
• Comparison Devices
• Literary Devices
• Poem Exercises - 4
9 DIARY WRITING
• Lesson Plan
• Diary Rubrics
• Diary Format
• Sample Diary
• Diary Entry Exercises - 4
10 REPORT WRITING
• Lesson Plan
• Report Rubrics
• Report Writing Tips
• Key Elements of a News Report
• Report Exercises - 3
11 DEBATE
• Lesson Plan
• Debate Rubrics
• Conducting a Debate
• Debate Format
• Balloon Debate
12 PLAYSCRIPT
• Lesson Plan
• Lesson Starter – Jack and Jill
• Play-script features
• Play-script Rubric
• Play-script Exercises
• Play-script – Les Miserables
13 ROLE PLAY
• Lesson Plan
• Role Play Steps
• Role Play Rubrics
• Role Play Exercises – 4
Teachers can use this to enhance the comprehension and language skills of the learners, especially the technique required to get involved in a theme-based learning project.
A ready to use lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on sentence structure.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Compare a sentence with a clause and a phrase.
Differentiate sentence types.
Analyse the structure of sentences.
Recognize variations in sentence structure as used in writing.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of sentence structure in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Simple, Compound, Complex
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Sentence Structure Checklist
Lesson Starter: Comparing a sentence with a phrase and a clause.
Discussion:
Sentence Types
Sentence Structure
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Thinking of sentences to go with each of the given pictures.
Think-Write: Identifying the given sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Write-Share: Picking conjunctions (coordinators or sub-ordinators) to join the two sentences together.
Mini-Plenary: 5 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating sentence structure skill in writing.
Extensions: Rewriting sentences in varied structures.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on sentence structure.
Home Learning:
Following the rules to place the commas in the correct places.
Identifying the main clause and sub-clause in the sentences.
Combining sentences using either coordinators or subordinators.
Joining sentences by using when, where, if, although, because, since, while.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Language - 6.1ce/2a/3a/7.1c/3a/8.1d
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
A PowerPoint Presentation of unit plan with 3 sessions on poetry comprehension – The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
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 - Paraphrasing the poem to its literal meaning (Exercise 1)
Ask-Write - Inferring the character of the speaker (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)
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)
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 (Exercise 8)
Assessment - Poetic Devices in Poetry Rubrics (Scaffold Notes 12)
Differentiated Tasks - Creating poems (Exercise 9)
Plenary – Answering poetic devices questions (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 - Presenting answers in poem form (Exercise 14)
Plenary - Answering multiple choice questions (Exercise 15)
Home Learning:
Comprehension Questions (Exercise 16)
Online Quizzes - 4
Online Comprehension Passages - 4
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
A unit lesson presentation with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of adjective types based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This download includes:
VIDEO – Types of Adjectives
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
EXERCISE 1: List the characteristics of adjectives and give examples.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Characteristics of Adjectives
EXERCISE 2: Classify adjectives based on their functional positioning and give examples.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Classification of Adjectives
EXERCISE 3: Describe the nouns in a sentence using appropriate adjectives.
EXERCISE 4: Explain the organization of adjectives in sentence patterns.
EXERCISE 5: Identify the misplaced and dangling modifiers then suggest corrections.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
EXERCISE 6: Place adjectives within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
EXERCISE 7: Use adjectives to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing.
EXERCISE 8: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of adjectives in writing. Focus on the use of key elements, functions, structure, sentence patterns, misplaced and dangling modifiers as suggested by the rubrics.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Adjective Types Rubrics
EXERCISE 9: Use the properties of adjectives to describe nouns.
EXERCISE 10: Demonstrate your knowledge of the functions of adjectives.
EXERCISE 11: Describe nouns using appropriate adjectives.
EXERCISE 12: Decide the appropriate use of adjectives.
EXERCISE 13: Decide how the underlined adjective is used in the sentence.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the adjective types used in the sentences.
EXERCISE 15: Identify the functions of adjective types.
EXERCISE 16: Identify the adjectives which answer the questions: how, where and when.
EXERCISE 17: Adjective quiz.