See more ideas about reading task cards, task cards and reading skills. Context clues task cards instructions for making the cards 1. Main idea boom cards features a short passage and three multiple choice answer options. Differentiated with stated and non stated topic sentence rachel. This set includes 12 paragraphs for students to read and state the main idea, as well as 12 photographs for students to view and identify the main idea.
I designed these task cards when my students were having a difficult time distinguishing the difference between main idea and theme. We commonly give the term peacock to a bird which is a member of. Grades 36 variety of activities mostly writing based focused on creative and critical thinking 20 task cards, each with a different autumnthemed, openended challenge. We use reading street as our reading series and while i inferencing at its bestand a freebie. Use them orally in small groups, or individually as a writing assignment at a literacy center. Elementary lafs question task cards grade 3 literary. This is great news if your district has adopted the new common core standards. Main idea task cards for centers reading lessons, reading skills, teaching reading. Mastering main idea using task cards simply skilled in.
It may be printed and photocopied by the original purchaser for single classroom and personal use only and may not be put on the internet, sold, or distributed in any form. Your students or child will enjoy practicing main idea with these 28 engaging main idea task cards. Inference is such a tricky skill to master, but these 24 cards can help. Main idea what would be another good title for the article. If you like any of these and would like more of the same plus answer keys, simply click on the link in the bottom left corner of the page that you like. Throw in a set here, a set there, a set everywhere and youll get the two giant boxes of task cards that i had at the end of the last school year. Traditional printable task cards and digital boom cards. Since i do mostly task cards now, i dont usually have to start from scratch i have the basic template. Print the question cards onto heavy weight paper or cardstock. Differentiated with stated and nonstated topic sentence by rachel lynette each of these main idea cards features a short informational text nonfiction passage to help your students master this challenging reading strategy. These main idea task cards will provide your students or child plenty of practi.
The first ten cards are informational text nonfiction while the last ten are fictional. We all started with multiple choice task cards, which gave students three options, one of which was the theme, and the other was the main idea the third is just a detail from the story. She describes an activity she did after a readaloud of cynthia rylants. Grades 48 27 creative activities to enrich your ela program. Whenever im in search of a specific set of task cards, i head right over to rachel lynette s tpt store because she is the queen of all things task cards. Please note that the passages in the digital boom cards are the same as set 2 in the traditional task cards.
I also created a set of nonfiction main idea task cards to use with my students as well. Try for free buy task cards some ideas minds in bloom blog try for free. I included 2 different sets to meet the varying needs of your students. Elementary lafs question task cards grade 5 932014 3 office of academics and transformation, department of english language arts, 20142015 lafs. Main idea task cards these work perfectly with small groups or stations. The first set should be used with students who are ready to generate their own main ideas and themes.
Main idea task cards sam snuck into his sisters room an d carefully placed a package in her top dresser drawer. Rachel lynette teaching resources teachers pay teachers. Printable task cards for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, and more. Each of these main idea cards features a short informational. Whenever im in search of a specific set of task cards, i head right over to rachel lynettes tpt store because she is the queen of all things task cards. This bundle of 32 visualizing task cards available for purchase, created by rachel lynette.
Printable task cards for teachers superteacherworksheets. I use a lot of languagearts task cards that i found on share my lesson. Grades 36 24 cards, each with a paragraph and reading strategy challenge 6 different reading strategies fiction and nonfiction informational text great for test prep and literacy centers. Use these 32 multiple choice task cards to reinforce feeble powerful 2. There are hundreds of ways these cards can be used, and the possibilities are limited only to your imagination. When she went inside to find some wasp spray, she found that she was out. The 48 cards are divided into two sets of 24 cards each for differentiated learning. Thank you for purchasing this set of 15 book projects. This fiction comprehension worksheet has students read eight sample passages. So i set out on my search for rachel s main idea task cards and of course found the perfect set. This is the idea behind teachers pay teachers tpt, an open. I love teaching my little kiddos how to make inferences. I have become obsessed with using task cards in my classroom. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.
Anyone can save a worksheet as a pdf and upload it to a sharing site. Rachel lynette, a former teacher and top seller at teachers pay teachers. Each of these main idea cards features an interesting informational text nonfiction paragraph. Later, we started working on theme task cards using brief passages. Theyll record their thoughts on the authors purpose task cards, using evidence from the text to support their answers. Wish list determining the main idea, task cards and assessment option. Mastering main idea using task cards simply skilled teaching. They are most suitable for grades 3 and 4, but can certainly be used in grade 5 for extra practice and confidencebuildin. Use the main idea task cards to practice identifying the main idea of a resource. Are you ready to try task cards with your students. Which statement best describes the lessonmoral of this story. If i get around to blogging about it, i will link to you so people can see what you did. Here is a sampler containing cards for six different reading strategies.
Guest blogger rachel lynette offers some development and marketing tips for. The main idea is not stated and therefore must be inferred. Use the task cards as an independent station activity or with a small group. Not exclusively asked to identify the speaker of narrators point of view. When his sister opens the top drawer, she will get a big surprise. This massive main idea task card bundle is a collection of 9 sets of main idea and details task cards. Grade 3 blended ngsss and ccss question task cards. It is not an easy skill to master, but with the right materials they tend to grab hold of itand completely get it. So i set out on my search for rachels main idea task cards and of course found the perfect set. Grades 36 24 informational text nonfiction paragraph. Differentiated with stated and nonstated topic sentence. Grades 48 7 types of figurative language definitions and examples on each card aligned to ccss elaliteracy l. This bundle contains main idea task cards in two formats. Its so easy to just pull out a set for a particular skill that kids are struggling.
Students love these task cards as an alternative to sitting down and doing a worksheet. These days, i create task cards and incorporate higherlevel thinking whenever i can. These cards can be used for learning centers, classroom games. Grades 36 24 informational text nonfiction paragraph cards to summarize in twelve words or less. See more ideas about task cards, reading task cards and teaching. The packet contains differentiated image recording sheets, activity ideas, a poster, and a challenge card. Each of these main idea cards features a short informational text nonfiction passage to help your. Whats your process from idea stage to product launch. Use these 16 story cards to help your students gain confidence in finding the. Take a look around their blogs for more great ideas on using task cards in the classroom and other great teaching ideas. They will receive an automated email and will return to answer you as soon as possible. Task cards are an ideal tool to use in your whole group lessons, small groups, intervention groups, and centers.
Grades 36 20 paragraph task cards for christmas, hanukkah. Identifying the main idea is a tricky skill to learn. I write down a few ideas sometimes i sketch a sample card and then i design the cards in powerpoint. Grades 47 64 cards for working with simple, compound, and. Main idea is asked in a variety of ways using graphic organizers, openended questi. Authors purpose task cards created by rachel lynette copyright 2012 all rights reserved. If you have a specific request for task cards, in most cases i am more than happy to make a set that meets math or language arts common core standards. This bundle of 32 visualizing task cards available for purchase, created by rachel lynette, contains both fictional and informational paragraphs that students can visualize while reading, and then illustrate and write about their images.
In addition to tons of tips and ideas, there are links to supporting resources and freebies. The cards are about cultural traditions and practices so they will work in a public school setting. Character traits task cards inference by rachel lynette reading strategy task cards, short. He had looked high and low for the ugliest, slimiest frog that he could find. So i look for common corealigned lessons and activities to help me meet the new standards. Grades 36 20 task cards, each with a different autumn. I absolutely love them and i think i have purchased every single one of rachel lynettes and teaching with a mountain view. You can find most of the task cards on my board at my tpt store here, and im creating new ones for most of the 35th grade common core standards in both language arts and math.
Each of these worksheets was pulled from one of my resource here are 16 readytouse printablesworksheets for you to use with highly rated tpt english language arts resources. Reading strategies task cards 24 free paragraph cards rachel lynette. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. But even in fiction, authors always have a purpose.
Teachers resource center task cards grade title statement barcode category american symbols task cards. This set of summarizing task cards includes ten cards for christmas, five for hanukkah, and five for kwanzaa. Elementary lafs question task cards grade 3 1 mdcps, office of academics and transformation, 20152016 literary informational category 1. There are main idea task cards across multiple genres. What is the most interesting thing you learned from this paragraph. Find the theme task cards created by rachel lynette 20122015 all rights reserved. Thanks so rachel lynette for creating a great resource. Here are some cards and other resources that you can try for free. In addition to the uses i blog about at task card corner, i have compiled ideas from other bloggers with their permission about how they use task cards in their classroom.
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