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 article writing.
After working with these worksheets 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 worksheets on:
Matching the topics with the titles.
Analyzing a feature to spot the parts of an article.
Providing the paragraphs with suitable topic sentences.
Choosing a topic to write an article.
Demonstrating the skill of feature articles in writing.
Answering multiple choice questions on article writing.
Writing prompts to write articles to health magazines.
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.
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 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
Ready to use worksheets with answers that present teaching and learning resources of complex sentence structure based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Identify the functions of subordinating conjunctions.
Identify the features of complex sentences.
Use subordinating conjunctions to introduce a clause or link two clauses.
Implement the features of complex sentences to discover their structure.
Assess and verify the correct use of complex sentence patterns in writing.
Create complex sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Identify the subordinating conjunctions from the examples.
EXERCISE 2: Identify the functions of subordinating conjunctions.
EXERCISE 3: Identify the subordinators from the given examples.
EXERCISE 4: Identify how the subordinating conjunctions are used in the sentences.
EXERCISE 5: Identify the features of complex sentences.
EXERCISE 6: Think of a complex sentence to go with each given picture.
EXERCISE 7: Identify the functions of clauses in general and their function in specific sentences – Part 1.
EXERCISE 8: Identify the function of clauses in general and their function in specific sentences – Part 2.
EXERCISE 9: Identify the function of clauses in general and their function in specific sentences – Part 3.
EXERCISE 10: Implement the properties of complex sentences to discover their structure.
EXERCISE 11: Examine the structure and the pattern of the complex sentences.
EXERCISE 12: Assess and verify the correct use of sentence patterns in writing.
EXERCISE 13: Create complex sentences with the given sentence structure and pattern.
EXERCISE 14: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of complex sentence structure in writing.
EXERCISE 15: Complete the sentences with meaningful clauses.
EXERCISE 16: Identify the main and subordinate clauses.
EXERCISE 17: Place commas wherever necessary.
EXERCISE 18: Join the sentences by using subordinators: when, where, if, although, because, since, while.
EXERCISE 19: Split the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
EXERCISE 20: Rewrite the following simple sentences as complex sentences.
EXERCISE 21: Rewrite the following complex sentences as compound sentences.
These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Definite and Indefinite Articles – ‘A’, ‘An’ and ‘The’. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these challenging exercises that are well-designed for student engagement.
This download includes:
EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-6) with their meaning (A-F).
EXERCISE 2: Answer the following questions.
List the uses (2 uses) of the articles ‘a’ and ‘an’ used before nouns singular in number.
List the uses (5 uses) of the article ‘the’ used before nouns singular or plural in number.
Describe the exceptions (2 exceptions) connected with the articles ‘a’ and ‘an’.
EXERCISE 3: Identify the words from the examples that show the uses of indefinite articles.
EXERCISE 4: Identify the words from the examples that show the uses of definite article.
EXERCISE 5: Identify the words from the examples that show the uses of no article.
EXERCISE 6: Identify the articles, definite (the), indefinite (a and an) and no article (Ø), as used for countable and uncountable nouns.
EXERCISE 7: Add the indefinite articles (a or an) to determine each of these words.
EXERCISE 8: Use a noun to name each picture. Think of an indefinite article to go before the noun.
EXERCISE 9: Fill in the blanks with correct articles (a, an and the) or zero article (Ø).
EXERCISE 10: Insert either ‘a’ or ‘an’ in each space so that the sentences make sense.
EXERCISE 11: Complete the following sentences using either definite or indefinite articles.
EXERCISE 12: Choose the correct articles to determine the nouns or adjectives.
EXERCISE 13: Identify the usage of definite and indefinite articles in given sentences.
EXERCISE 14: Identify the usage of definite article in the given sentences.
EXERCISE 15: Identify the given sentences that are correct or incorrect in the use of an article or no article.
EXERCISE 16: Write a sentence about each picture and include ‘a,’ ‘an’ and ‘the’.
EXERCISE 17: Attempt any one of the activities to demonstrate your mastery in using articles in writing.
EXERCISE 18: Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.
EXERCISE 19: Choose a correct article in each sentence.
EXERCISE 20: State the usage of the definite articles in the sentences.
EXERCISE 21: Use indefinite articles - a or an to fill in the blanks.
EXERCISE 22: Circle the indefinite articles and underline the definite article.
EXERCISE 23: Circle the indefinite articles and underline the definite article used in the six little stories.
EXERCISE 24: Identify the articles used in the 14 hilarious laws.
These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Phrases – Adverb or Adverbial Phrases. 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 WORDS with their MEANING.
EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Adverb Phrase – to answer the following questions with examples.
Define an adverb phrase and compare adverbs with adverb phrases.
Describe the role of adverb phrases as modifiers.
List the types of adverb phrases with examples.
EXERCISE 3: Take the following quiz to demonstrate your understanding of adverbial phrases.
EXERCISE 4: Review the properties of adverb phrases and identify the elements from the examples.
EXERCISE 5: Take the following quiz to demonstrate your knowledge of the properties of adverb phrases.
EXERCISE 6: Identify the adverb phrases.
EXERCISE 7: Fill in the blanks with appropriate adverb phrases.
EXERCISE 8: Review the functions based on adverbial types to identify the adverb phrases from the examples.
EXERCISE 9: Identify the questions the adverb phrases answer.
EXERCISE 10: Identify the functions of adverbial phrases.
EXERCISE 11: Decide the type of adverb phrases used in sentences based on their functions.
EXERCISE 12: Identify the type of adverb phrases used in the sentences.
EXERCISE 13: Demonstrate the mastery of the use of clauses in writing.
EXERCISE 14: Review the common errors writers make due to misplaced and dangling modifiers in the following examples.
EXERCISE 15: Place phrases within a sentence, recognising and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
EXERCISE 16: Identify the errors to ensure that the subject of the modifier is clearly stated in the sentence.
EXERCISE 17: Name the action in the visual. Describe the action using an adverb. Expand the adverb to an adverb phrase that is equivalent in meaning.
EXERCISE 18: Create new sentence patterns using adverbial phrases.
EXERCISE 19: Underline the adverbial phrase and state the question (how, when, where, why) it answers.
EXERCISE 20: Identify the type of the underlined adverbial phrase: time, place, manner, frequency or purpose.
EXERCISE 21: Fill in the blanks of the given passage: choose from the list of adverbial phrases in the box. Enter a phrase each in the blank, to keep the grammar and meaning of the text.
EXERCISE 22: Identify the adverbial phrase in each of the sentences and state the word class it modifies.
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 lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on reading strategies: skimming, scanning, and close reading.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Distinguish between skimming, scanning and close reading.
Skim and scan texts to locate information.
Obtain specific information through detailed reading.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Skimming, Scanning, Close Reading
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Skimming and Scanning
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Image Information
Success Criteria - Skim Scan Read Checklist
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Scaffolder Notes - Reading Strategies, S-S-R Chart
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 - Exercise
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Heads Together
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RI.6-8.1-4/6
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Teachers can use this resource to teach the students how to comprehend, thereby helping them to enhance their reading 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
This resource covers the integral, surface and deep features of a detective story comprehension and story analysis. It contains full-on activities and assessments to cover the skills of literacy in an easy, structured, cover-your-bases system. It includes everything you need to get going with a detective story lesson in your classroom for a week (5 days).
This Resource Includes:
1. Lesson Plans & Rubrics on:
* Story Elements
* Story Setting
* Story Characters
* Story Plot
* Summary Writing
2. Guides & Formats:
* Story Analysis Guide
* Critical Appreciation Format
* Character Description Template
* Plot Diagram
* Summarizing Guide
3. Support Material:
* Story Genres
* Sample Character Sketch
* Sample Summary
4. Lesson Notes on Orange Pips
* Story Analysis
* Character Description
* Summary
5. Word Bank:
* Active Verbs
* Adjective Types
* Adverb Types
* Connectives
6. Worksheets
* Story Setting Exercises (4)
* Character Sketch Exercises (2)
* Summarizing Exercises (3)
Teachers can use this to enhance the comprehension skills of the learners, especially the technique required to make a plot summary, a critical appreciation, and a summary of a story.
A bundle of 4 resources on form filling.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Rules, 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, comprehension, and writing skills of the learners.
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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 bundle of 4 resources on poster designing.
This bundle includes:
Handouts: Vocabulary, Key Points, Template, 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 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 9 worksheets on identification of audience, register, and tone in a text.
This resource includes exercises on:
Identifying audience, register, and tone of adverts.
Identifying audience traits in a text.
Identifying language register in a text.
Identifying text tone in a text.
Demonstrating audience, register, and tone knowledge in writing.
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
This Entrance Assessment Test is developed with the aim of creating a fair selection process.
The test measures reading, writing, and application of grammar skills of children predominantly of ages 10 to 11 years.
EAT strives to make the selection process fair for all candidates with assessments designed to enable all children to demonstrate their academic potential without excessive preparation.
A compact review of play-script organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Play-script Features
Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about play-script writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ Holiday Work
✿ Small Group Collaborations
✿ End of Unit Quick Assessments
✿ Homework
✿ Reinforcement
✿ Enrichment
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on prepositions of place.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire understanding of preposition rules.
Illustrate prepositions of place.
Learn how and when to use place prepositions.
Demonstrate the correct use of prepositions of place in writing.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Preposition, Preposition of Place
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - What is Preposition of Place
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Simon Says
Success Criteria - Place Preposition Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Preposition Rules, Place Prepositions
Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – 5 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 - Hide and Seek
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets with Answers
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1e/5.1a/8.1/5b
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Word-Bank: Connectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives
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 story analysis organized for quick referencing.
This resource includes:
Vocabulary Overview
Template and Prompt
Story Components
Story Analysis Guide
Tone Words
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 poetry analysis.
After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:
Acquire knowledge of poetry elements.
Discuss poetry analysis guide, poetry structures, and poetry forms.
Analyse the assigned poem to make a critical appreciation.
Demonstrate mastery of poetry elements in writing.
This Resource Includes:
Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
Vocabulary Overview - Tone, Poetic Techniques, Context, Point of View
Flipped Lesson Part - Video - How to Analyze a Poetry
Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Compose Your Own Poems
Success Criteria - Poetry Analysis Checklist
Scaffolding Notes - Forms, Structures, Template, Guide, Prompt
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 - Exercise
Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - PQE Technique
Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Worksheets and Task Cards
Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1/2/4/11-12.7
Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
Word-Bank: Connectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives
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 11 worksheets with answers on poetic devices in poetry.
This resource includes:
Identifying sound devices used in poems.
Identifying comparison devices used in poems.
Identifying other poetic devices used in poems.
Explaining how poetic devices are used in poems.
Using poetic device prompts to explain use of poetic devices.
Answering poetic devices related questions.
Demonstrating the mastery of poetic devices 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 11 task cards on poetry comprehension – Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Lee Frost.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation.
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem.
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context.
This resource includes:
Identification of poetry elements (Exercise 1)
Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 2)
Planning to write a poems (Exercise 3)
Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 4)
Explanation of the poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 5)
Creating poems (Exercise 6)
Summarizing the meaning (Exercise 7)
Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 8)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 9)
Analyzing poems (Exercise 10)
Comprehension Questions (Exercise 11)
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 15 task cards and exercises on poetry comprehension – O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman.
After working with these worksheets students will be able to:
Analyse the poem to make a critical appreciation.
Identify the poetic devices and explain how they are used in the poem.
Annotate the lines of the poem with reference to context.
This resource includes:
Vocabulary Check (Exercise 1)
Identification of poetry elements (Exercise 2)
Critical appreciation of the poem (Exercise 3)
Planning to write poems (Exercise 4)
Selecting correct option to answer questions (Exercise 5)
Meanings of expressions used in the poem (Exercise 6)
Identification of poetic devices (Exercise 7)
Explanation of the poetic devices as used in the poem (Exercise 8)
Creating poems (Exercise 9)
Answering questions with options (Exercise 10)
Summarizing the meaning (Exercise 11)
Identification of annotation elements (Exercise 12)
Annotating the lines of the poem (Exercise 13)
Analyzing poems (Exercise 14)
Answering comprehension questions (Exercise 15)
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