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Free middle school literature task cards
ELA Bell Ringers Free Week - Team Trivia, Puzzles, and Riddles - ELA Warm Ups
These fun and challenging bell ringers (or exit tickets) are a mix of ELA trivia, riddles, puzzles, and quizzes about books, movies, and music. Your students will work in teams to collaborate, earn points, and eventually try to win the class competition. This is a great way to build classroom community!This freebie contains five mini-quizzes and an answer key.Students will tackle:✅ Riddles & word games✅ Classic lit with a twist✅ YA fiction & pop cultureCheck out these complete sets:Each
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7th - 10th
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl Short Story Activity Pack
A packet of activities to accompany Roald Dahl's famous short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter". Included in this free resource:
* Comprehension question worksheet (students must use text evidence to justify their responses)
* Plot mapping activity--two forms included--one blank and one partially filled
* 8 task cards for extension after reading--students can respond in writing or orally.
Great for a day when you have a substitute, or for students to work on independently.
Here's an example of h
Grades:
8th - 12th
Genre Task Cards | Middle Grades Fiction Genres
24 "What's the Genre?" task cards that feature a relevant book title, plot summary, and book cover image. Students determine and record the genre on the response sheet. Genres include realistic fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.When I teach fiction novel genres, I include mystery and adventure as subgenres of realistic fiction and dystopian fiction as a subgenre of science fiction.
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4th - 9th
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Character Inference Task Cards
This download includes 20 task cards that require students to infer details about a character and his or her situation from a short paragraph. Students are required to support their inferences with details from the text. Paragraphs are written at approximately a 4th grade reading level, but are good for use with advanced younger students or older students who need a review.The download also includes two answer sheets: one that is scaffolded with prompts, and one that is blank. To save on printin
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3rd - 6th
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Literary Analysis Essay Prompt Sheet, Critical Thinking, Close Reading, Engaging
NEW FREEBIE ALERT! :)Looking for a way to create BOTH engagement AND critical thinking as you study literature in your ELA Classroom? Check out this FREE Literary Analysis Reading Response sheet!Ready-to-print and use, this PDF sheet offers 12 different Literary Analysis Essay prompts that offer engaging, yet thoughtful prompts for your students to dig into and develop their critical thinking skills in the English classroom!Be the first to know about discounts, freebies, and new resources by cli
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle, Comprehension Study Questions, Writing Practice
Similes and Metaphors Task Cards: Identify, Interpret, & Compare
Get your students up and moving with 20 differentiated task cards. Students will identify similes and metaphors, interpret meanings, and determine what unlike things are being compared. This task card set comes with and anchor chart, student response sheet, and answer key.These task cards are great to laminate and use year after year!
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4th - 6th
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Determining Text Structure Station (Center) Game
This is a fun card game that helps students learn how to determine text structure using only the title of the book found on each card.
It is a great activity for stations (centers).
It is a free product. Please let me know how much you like it!
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3rd - 6th
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Text Structures BOOM™ Cards
Text structures are hard to differentiate and locate in reading! This task card activity will help your students learn the five text structures. Each card has a passage that students will identify as one of the five parts of speech. This boom card deck is self-checking and great for informal assessment. This resource was made with 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade in mind. It is perfect for distance learning or face to face instruction!What Does this Deck Include?50 Text Structure CardsSelf-Ch
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4th - 6th
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12 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Spark Critical Thinking
Students LOVE literature circles - especially when you incorporate awesome task cards! These task cards are a SIMPLE way to make literature circles FUN and engaging for students! Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...Visit my Ms. G's Room 30 Blog for more tips, tricks and resources that can further enhance the magic that happens in your classroom on a daily basis!Looking for more than 12 task cards?24 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Critical Thinking Ski
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Citing the Text Exit Card *CCSS Aligned RL.6.1, RL.7.1, RL.8.1, RL.9-10.1
This exit card/exit ticket is a formative assessment for citing the text.
It is aligned with CCSS RL.6.1, RL.7.1, RL.8.1, and RL.9-10.1
It uses text from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is a Public Domain book.
Only takes 5 minutes and will give you awesome data as to how your students are doing with finding textual evidence.
Includes student self assessment.
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6th - 10th
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FREE Common Core Holiday Bell Ringer/Exit Slips
Common Core Aligned Holiday Bell Ringers and Exit Slips for the ELA or History Teacher
'Tis the season to thank everyone for your patronage! Here are 12 free bell ringer/exit slips activities you can use at the beginning or end of class period. They are holiday-themed and practice skills such as analyzing figurative language, analyzing and comparing characters from a novel or historical figures, and writing for shorter periods of times.
If your students enjoy these, they will have fun with th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: English Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources Mega Bundle
Literature Task Cards Freebie
If you want to build true independent study skills in your classroom - then these task cards are for you! This free taster set of 10 task cards is part of my popular Literature Task Cards set. So download, print, and test them out!
Click here to buy the complete set of 60 task cards. Use them with any literature text to develop understanding and build stretch and challenge into your lessons.
These tasks cards are perfect to help you analyze any literature text, from novels and drama to poetry
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7th - 11th
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Literature Fiction Exit Slips FREEBIE
Use these six exit slips or task cards with any work of fiction to assess student comprehension of short stories, novel chapters or sections, or acts of dramas. The cards ask students to think critically about some aspect of what they read (characterization, theme, mood, etc.) and write or draw a response to the prompt. Students answer directly on the back of each slip.The following .pdfs are included in the .zip file (they are not editable):1) Cover page2) Instructions page3) Credits page4) 2 p
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8th - 11th
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Lord of the Flies Symbolism Task Cards
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, symbols dominate the novel. From Piggy's specs, to the conch, to the dazzle paint Jack smears across his face, they all play a role in the boys' descent into savagery.
While reading The Lord of the Flies in my own classroom, I have my students split into tribes. Within those tribes is where the majority of the group work is done. After thoroughly tracking the symbols in the novel, my students used these task cards as a way to study. The task cards includ
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8th - 12th
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Point Of View Reading Task Cards - Easy and Advanced level!
Point of view task cards are a versatile and effective tool for teaching students of all levels about the different perspectives used in literature. These task cards are available in both easy and advanced levels, making them suitable for elementary, middle, high school, and college students. With clear and concise prompts, the easy level task cards are perfect for introducing younger students to the basics of point of view, while the advanced level task cards challenge older students to think c
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3rd - 6th
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Task Cards for Independent Reading Sampler
Enclosed you will find 12 free task cards that can be used with any fiction book. Students will write responses to the prompts on the task cards. The writing prompts can be used with any fiction book. You can have students use the cards individually or in a group.I would print them out on card stock paper (either white or colored) and laminate the cards. You can put them on a ring and give each student or each group of students one set of cards or you can leave them loose and give each student o
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5th - 12th
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Novel Study Freebie
Are you looking for activities you can use with ANY novel? Try this free sample of my Novel Studies Bundle!This free resource includes 3 worksheets and 3 task cards from my Novel Study Bundle! Preview the resource before you buy the bundle.Click here to view the Novel Study Bundle! All the worksheets and resources you need to teach a novel!The Novel Study Bundle includes:32 Task CardsA PowerPoint of activities50 worksheets Book Discussion Role CardsActivities designed for ANY novel - ideal for w
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4th - 6th
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Point of View Cards
Use these cards in your classroom to help students practice point of view! They can be used as a station, or simply for individual work time to practice identifying point of view. They include examples of first, second, third person limited, third person omniscient, and third person objective point of view. Each card includes a sentence, as well as a key explaining what the different points of view are, along with a description of each.#LanguageArts #PointofView
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4th - 9th
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards
This is a great activity for students after they have been introduced (or refreshed) on fact vs opinion. Students will read each statement and organize the task cards based on whether they are factual statements or opinion statements.
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3rd - 7th
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Literature Circles Task Cards
These Literature Circles Task Cards are perfect for individual work or to use as prompts for group discussions! They can be used with any novel study or literature circle focus.
With 4 levels of differentiated tasks you are guaranteed to find something for each of your students in this pack. Suggestions for different ways to use the task cards are included to help you get started.
The Task Cards focus on the following areas:
- Connect
- Visualize
- Infer
- Transform
- Character
- Setting
- Plo
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Kensuke's Kingdom Novel Study
Complete NO PREP novel study for the busy teacher who wants rigor for students. Use for reading only or add the included writing and editing components. Aligned to the rigor or Texas TEKS. Includes: comprehensive chapter questions using strong TEKS academic language and higher level thinking skills, discussion questions, editing review, and a summary activity. Just print and begin!
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4th - 8th
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HATCHET NOVEL TASK CARDS
These questions were created to review the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulson. Great for large and/or small group Q and A prior to a test or writing assignment at the end of the novel.
File contains:
-18 multiple choice completion questions
- 2 slides of 12 extra editable task cards for you to create your own task questions
- teacher key cards with a letter response on each card.
The key cards can be laminated to the back of each matching task question card and/or revealed on the whiteboard
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: HATCHET BUNDLE
Writing Hook Imagery FREEBIE (Starting With Impact) American English
Free writing hook task cards for imagery (5 senses). Sentence starters and prompts that teach students how to start their writing with impact and keep their reader entertained right from the start! Both fiction and non-fiction sentence starters are included.
This is the American English version. Click here to view the Australian/ British English version
★★★Teach students how to use imagery to start their writing with impact using this FREE prompt cards pack.★★★
Writing an interesting start t
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4th - 7th
Intermediate Reading Response Journal Stickers: Fiction Texts
Writing about reading is an important element of the common core curriculum. When children are all reading different texts during reader's workshop, it can be difficult to manage your student's journal responses. "What do I write about?" becomes a common question. Print these journal questions on a sheet of 14 labels, and staple them into your students' journals or folders. Students can then pick a question that works with their text, and stick it in their journal! These questions were designed
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4th - 6th
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