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 ready to use unit lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources of a grammar lesson on subject-verb agreement based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this unit students will be able to:
Identify the parts of a sentence (subject and verb).
List and explain the basic rules of subject-verb agreement.
Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence.
Explain the organisation of subject and verb in a sentence pattern.
Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement.
Create and compose new sentence patterns with subject-verb concordance.
This download includes:
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING
EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-10) with their meanings (A-J).
EXERCISE 2: Identify subjects and verbs as used in the given sentences.
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING
EXERCISE 3: Watch the video - Subject-VerbAgreement - to fill in the correct form of the verbs in the brackets.
EXERCISE 4: List and explain the basic rules of subject-verb agreement with examples.
SESSION 3: APPLYING
EXERCISE 5: Supply an appropriate linking verb that agrees with the subject in each of the sentences and the visuals.
EXERCISE 6: Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence – Part 1.
EXERCISE 7: Examine and discover the agreement of subject and verb in a sentence – Part 2.
SESSION 4: ANALYSING
EXERCISE 8: Explain the organisation of subject and verb in a sentence pattern.
SESSION 5: EVALUATING
EXERCISE 9: Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement – Part 1.
EXERCISE 10: Verify and correct the mistaken subject and deceptive agreement – Part 2.
SESSION 6: CREATING
EXERCISE 11: Create and compose new sentence patterns with subject-verb concordance.
DIFFERENTIATION:
EXERCISE 12: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of subject-verb agreement in writing.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: Subject-Verb Agreement Rubrics
HOME LEARNING:
EXERCISE 13: Correct the errors in subject-verb agreement in the following paragraph.
EXERCISE 14: Circle the correct verb in each of the sentences.
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 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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on review writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand the conventions of a review to use them in writing.
Determine the qualities and characteristics of an effective review.
Apply your knowledge to write a review on seen, read, bought or experienced product.
Review a peer work to compare your ideas with other reviewers.
This Resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Reviews
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Video
Success Criteria - Reviewing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Reviewing the review types, review subjects, and review purposes.
Discussion:
Review Conventions
Tips for Place Review
Guidelines on Book Review
Guidelines on Movie Review
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Identifying the features of a place review and a book review.
Think-Write: Comparing and contrasting reviews.
Write-Share: Using graphic organizer to write a review of a book.
Mini-Plenary: 4 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Writing reviews of the given situations.
Extensions: Online Film Review and Writing with Writers.
Plenary: Selecting best options that answer reviewing questions.
Home Learning:
Writing a place review.
Writing book review.
Writing movie review.
Identifying the review types, review subjects, and review purposes.
Reading review to answer questions.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 9-10.1a-e/2a-f/4/8
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 plan that presents teaching and learning resources on article writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Recall article writing techniques.
Apply authorial technique to write articles.
Analyse author’s use of language and the impact of it in writing an article.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of article in writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview - Articles, Features, News Story
Real Life Application and Cross-Curriculum Links
Flipped Lesson Part - Videos
Success Criteria - Article Writing Checklist
Lesson Starter: Matching the topics with the titles.
Discussion:
Article Writing Tips
Structure of a Feature Article
Features of a Feature Article
Collaborative Tasks:
Pair-Share: Analyzing a feature to spot the parts of an article.
Think-Write: Providing the paragraphs with suitable topic sentences.
Write-Share: Choosing a topic to write an article.
Mini-Plenary: 2 Online Quizzes
Assessment Rubrics
Differentiated Tasks: Demonstrating article writing skill.
Extensions: Writing prompts to write articles to health magazines.
Plenary: Answering multiple choice questions on article writing.
Home Learning:
Identifying the structural elements of a news story.
Thinking of creative titles for the given short articles.
Matching the given first paragraphs with the topic sentences.
Thinking of an appropriate conclusion to given paragraphs.
Common Core Standards: ELA-Literacy-Writing - 6-8.1a-e/4/7
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 compact review of diary entry organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Diary Checklist and Word-Bank
Sample Diary Entry
Diary Writing Features
Diary Writing Format
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about the diary writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A list of handouts that speak about tips and elements of report writing.
This download includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Report Types
Report Writing Tips
Key Elements of a Newspaper Report
Sample Newspaper Report
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
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on debating skills.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Review basic debating skills.
Discuss the debate format for a classroom.
Learn how to conduct a debate.
Demonstrate the art of argument building in a debate.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Debate, Argument, Rebuttal
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Basic Debating Skills
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Debate Decide
Success Criteria - Debate Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Debating Format for a Classroom, Conducting a Debate
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 - What If
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1cd/3/6
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - 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 that presents the Seven Stages of Man's Life composed by William Shakespeare in a visual way.
All the world's a stage; is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It", spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone and old age, facing imminent death. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently quoted passages.
Teachers can use this resource during class assembly to motivate students to appreciate the literature of William Shakespeare.
A unit lesson plan with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of writing a biography based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This download includes:
Video: Writing Biographies
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
EXERCISE 1: Compare and contrast a biography and an autobiography.
Use the Interactive Venn Diagram to record the difference between autobiography and biography.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Biography vs Autobiography Chart
EXERCISE 2: Identify the sentences that answer the given questions to show the structure and features of a sample biography.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Question Prompts for Biography
EXERCISE 3: Determine the author’s use of narrative language and techniques for the given sample biography – Part 1.
EXERCISE 4: Determine the author’s use of narrative language and techniques for the given sample biography – Part 2.
EXERCISE 5: DIFFERENTIATION - Demonstrate your knowledge of writing a biography by attempting any one of the following tasks. Focus on content, ideas, organization, voice, word choice, vocabulary, sentence structure and conventions as suggested by rubrics.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Writing a Biography Rubrics
EXERCISE 6: Follow either the graphic organizer or Bio Cube to plan a biography on a chosen person.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Biography Graphic Organiser
Use Bio Cube from Cube Creator to develop an outline of a person whose biography you want to write. Use specific prompts to describe a person’s significance, background and personality.
EXERCISE 7: Follow the biography structure to organise the first draft of a planned biography on the chosen person.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Biography Structure
EXERCISE 8: Use the checklist to evaluate each other’s work with constructive feedback.
Scaffolding Notes 7: Biography Checklist
EXERCISE 9: Use the rubrics to evaluate each other’s work with constructive feedback.
Scaffolding Notes 8: Biography Rubrics
EXERCISE 10: Follow the teacher instructions and student feedback to write the final draft of the drafted biography. Write your own biography and publish it on Writing with Writers.
Scaffolding Notes 9: Sample Biography – Helen Keller
Scaffolding Notes 10: Transitions – Connective Words
Scaffolding Notes 11: Adjective Types and Adverb Types
Scaffolding Notes 12: Active Verbs
Scaffolding Notes 13: Sentence Types
Select Biographies and Memoirs and list them under the headings based on people whose work was in sports, science, engineering, the arts and anything else that may grab a student passing by the table.
EXERCISE 11: Read an extract from the biography of Albert Einstein and answer the comprehension questions.
EXERCISE 12: Online Exercise: English ESL Biography Worksheets
A package that contains 10 worksheets on form filling.
This resource includes exercises on:
Comparing forms
Identifying the purpose of forms
Creating Google forms
Filling forms
Retrieving information to fill the forms
Teachers can use these task cards to enhance the vocabulary, language, comprehension, and writing skills of the learners.
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✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on note taking.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Identify the importance and usefulness of note-taking skills.
Evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of various note-taking strategies.
Prepare notes from lectures, texts, videos, and activities.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Note Taking, Reading
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Note Taking Methods
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Guess the WALT
Success Criteria - Note Taking Checklist
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Scaffolder Notes - Rules, 5 R’s, Format, Abbreviations
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 - Note Taker
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - The Plenary Dice
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 5 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-12.1-3/W.9-12.4
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Connectives
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students to take notes, 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 ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources of simple sentence structure based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Recall the properties of sentences with examples.
Identify the parts of simple sentences with examples.
Think of simple sentences to go with the given pictures.
Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
EXERCISE 1: Compare and contrast a phrase, clause and sentence. Use subject, verb and complete thought as criteria to differentiate. Use YES and NO to identify the difference.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Phrase-Clause-Sentence Chart
EXERCISE 2: Identify the properties of sentences in the given examples.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Parts of a Sentence
EXERCISE 3: Identify the parts of sentences.
EXERCISE 4: Identify the parts of a simple sentence with examples.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Features of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 5: Answering questions to demonstrate the knowledge of sentence structure.
EXERCISE 6: Think of a simple sentence to go with each picture.
EXERCISE 7: Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Structure of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following to recognise variations in sentence structure as used in writing.
EXERCISE 9: Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
EXERCISE 10: Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
EXERCISE 11: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of simple sentence structure in writing.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Sentence Structure Rubrics
EXERCISE 12: Identify the following as phrase, clause and sentence.
EXERCISE 13: Identify subject and predicate from the given sentences.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the subjects and verbs then decide whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
EXERCISE 15: Put each group of words together in a sentence.
EXERCISE 16: Complete each sentence by adding either a subject or a predicate.
A set of 10 worksheets with answers on teaching and learning resources of newspaper report writing based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing these worksheets students will be able to:
SESSION 1: Recognise, retrieve and name the key elements of a report.
SESSION 2: Interpret and classify the authorial techniques in a report.
SESSION 3: Implement and execute report writing techniques.
SESSION 4: Demonstrate the knowledge of reporting in writing.
SESSION 5: Check and critique a given report.
SESSION 6: Compose and produce the final report.
This download includes worksheets on:
EXERCISE 1: Identifying newspaper report types (images).
EXERCISE 2: Identifying newspaper report types (text).
EXERCISE 3: Finding, listing and describing the different sections of a newspaper
EXERCISE 4: Explaining the author’s use of language and vocabulary and its impact in a newspaper report.
EXERCISE 5: Using the planning frame to assemble a sample newspaper report through sequencing.
EXERCISE 6: Using the template to organise a draft of a sample newspaper report on a given topic.
EXERCISE 7: Using the checklist and the rubric to evaluate each other’s work.
EXERCISE 8: Using the PQP and TAG technique to peer-review each other’s work with constructive feedback.
EXERCISE 9: Using your knowledge of newspaper reports in writing.
EXERCISE 10: Answering the following questions to demonstrate the knowledge of newspaper report 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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on job interviews.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
How to prepare to face and to conduct an interview.
Use PAR and STAR techniques to answer behavioral interviewing questions.
Review and revise sample interview questions.
Demonstrate interviewing knowledge in writing.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Interview, Interviewer, Interviewee
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - How to Interview for a Job?
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Review the Interview
Success Criteria - Interviewing Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Tips, Questions Review, PAR and STAR Technique
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Speak, Think-Speak, Write-Speak
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – 4 Online Quizzes
Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Exercise
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Exercise
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-12.1ac/5-6
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - 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 PowerPoint presentation that presents teaching and learning resources of simple sentence structure based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Recall the properties of sentences with examples.
Identify the parts of simple sentences with examples.
Think of simple sentences to go with the given pictures.
Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
This download includes:
Scaffolding Notes 1: Vocabulary Overview
EXERCISE 1: Compare and contrast a phrase, clause and sentence. Use subject, verb and complete thought as criteria to differentiate. Use YES and NO to identify the difference.
Scaffolding Notes 2: Phrase-Clause-Sentence Chart
EXERCISE 2: Identify the properties of sentences in the given examples.
Scaffolding Notes 3: Parts of a Sentence
EXERCISE 3: Identify the parts of sentences.
EXERCISE 4: Identify the parts of a simple sentence with examples.
Scaffolding Notes 4: Features of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 5: Answering questions to demonstrate the knowledge of sentence structure.
EXERCISE 6: Think of a simple sentence to go with each picture.
EXERCISE 7: Implement the properties of simple sentences to discover their structure.
Scaffolding Notes 5: Structure of a Simple Sentence
EXERCISE 8: Answer the following to recognise variations in sentence structure as used in writing.
EXERCISE 9: Assess and verify the correct use of simple sentence patterns in writing.
EXERCISE 10: Create simple sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
EXERCISE 11: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of simple sentence structure in writing.
Scaffolding Notes 6: Sentence Structure Rubrics
EXERCISE 12: Identify the following as phrase, clause and sentence.
EXERCISE 13: Identify subject and predicate from the given sentences.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the subjects and verbs then decide whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
EXERCISE 15: Put each group of words together in a sentence.
EXERCISE 16: Complete each sentence by adding either a subject or a predicate.
A ready to use lesson plan 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 resource that contains 9 worksheets with answers for using prompts to write. It includes exercises on how to use proverbs as prompts to write. It also provides task cards for matching, finding, and identifying meanings of proverbs. Teachers can use these to enhance the vocabulary and language skills of the learners in their writing.
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
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on diary writing.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Develop an understanding of diary entry.
Acquire imaginative skills and techniques required for diary entry.
Use sequences of sentences and paragraphs that are linked smoothly to demonstrate knowledge of diary entry.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Diary, Chronicler, Journal
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Diary Entry
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Same Answer
Success Criteria - Diary Entry Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Diary Writing Format
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 - 5 Online Exercises
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Diary Entry Features
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.W.6-8.3abcde/4
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Educational Tools and Resources - Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives, Connectives
Teachers can use these resource to teach the students to make a diary entry, thereby helping them to enhance their 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 set of 25 task cards and exercises on prose comprehension of a Shakespearean comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Spot the setting elements and describe the setting.
Name the characters and make a character sketch.
Discover the plot elements and develop the plot.
Analyse the text to make a critical appreciation.
Examine the lines from the text with reference to context.
This resource includes:
(EXERCISE 1) Inferring the setting
(EXERCISE 2) Identifying setting elements
(EXERCISE 3) Describing the setting
(EXERCISE 4) Creating story setting
(EXERCISE 5) Answering setting related questions
(EXERCISE 6) Spotting the traits of the characters
(EXERCISE 7) Identifying the main character’s elements
(EXERCISE 8) Making a character sketch
(EXERCISE 9) Creating characters for the story
(EXERCISE 10) Answering characterization questions
(EXERCISE 11) Identifying plot elements
(EXERCISE 12) Identifying plot description elements
(EXERCISE 13) Developing the plot
(EXERCISE 14) Making a story plot
(EXERCISE 15) Answering plot related questions
(EXERCISE 16) Answering story analysis questions
(EXERCISE 17) Identifying story elements
(EXERCISE 18) Making a critical appreciation
(EXERCISE 19) Writing a story
(EXERCISE 20) Answering story components questions
(EXERCISE 21) Identifying summary elements
(EXERCISE 22) Identifying RTC elements for the given lines
(EXERCISE 23) Explaining the line with reference to context
(EXERCISE 24) Finding the context of the Shakespearean quotes
(EXERCISE 25) Answering with reference to context.
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
Inquiry-based learning (also enquiry-based learning in British English) starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios—rather than simply presenting established facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge. The process is often assisted by a facilitator.
This Resource Covers:
1. Meaning of IBL
2. Why Inquiry
3. Inquiry Components and Procedures
4. Inquiry Levels and Benefits
5. Facilitator's and Learner's Role
6. Inquiry Challenges and Outcomes
7. Resources to Implement IBL