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Free high 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
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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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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
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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Free ELA Task Card Sampler (48 cards) / Plot, Language, Character, and more!
Task cards are a great way to promote movement in the ELA classroom. Task cards can be used in so many contexts and with a variety of subjects. For this reason, I’ve designed 6 different sets of task cards! -32 Poetry Task Cards-32 Rhetoric Task Cards-32 Plot and Conflict Task Cards-32 Characterization Task Cards-32 Research and Informational Text Flash Cards-32 Figurative Language and Literary Devices Flash CardsThis sampler is designed to give you an idea of what you can find in each set and f
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9th - 12th
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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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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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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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6th - 9th
Halloween Creative Writing Task Cards FREEBIE
Looking for Halloween-themed narrative writing that will actually appeal to high school students? Look no further!
ost teachers want something fun to do for the holidays, and Halloween is no exception. However, we always have to keep the standards in mind. Never fear! These task cards give your students lots of creative options for Halloween creative writing, but still meet Common Core narrative writing standards.
These task cards are rigorous. They will also appeal to high school students
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10th - 12th
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Any Novel Analysis Task Cards Mini Pack | Character Theme Language | 10 11 12 AP
This mini-pack of task cards is perfect for use as stations, centers, writing prompts, or bell ringers in your high school English classroom. Designed to be generic enough to apply to any novel or short story, this set of 18 task cards includes character analysis, theme development, and author's use of language to help students dive deeper into literature!Get TPT credits to use on future purchases! Go to your My Purchases page (you may need to log in). Click the Provide Feedback button. Give a r
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9th - 12th
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Defining Heroism Inquiry-Based Task Cards (12 cards / Freebie)
When my freshmen begin studying The Odyssey, we begin by defining "heroism." Students consider what it means to be a hero. But rather than give students the definition, I prefer to help students develop their own definition. That's where these cards come in: students develop a preliminary definition of "hero" and then check their definition against a series of cards with examples of famous heroes. This inquiry-based strategy allows students to think critically and to develop a definition they ca
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9th - 10th
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Free Literature Task Cards
Use these free task cards to review the big ideas, enduring understandings, and skills essential to your AP Literature and Composition classes. Literary elements reviewed include character, setting, plot, structure, narration, figurative language, and theme. Choose which cards you want to use with your students (identified by AP Literature skill or in “student-friendly” language.) Copy the pages and organize them by types of activities. For each set of tasks or questions, there are corresponding
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8th - 12th
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Free How to Read Literature Like a Professor AP Lit Task Cards
I assign How to Read Literature like a Professor as summer reading as I think many AP Literature teachers also do. For years, I struggled with ways to intentionally incorporate the take-aways throughout the year. As a result, I have created a series of quick activities that can be used with any novel or play at any point during the year.This download is a set of task cards which can be used in a variety of ways. Each card includes a quotation from How to Read Literature Like a Professor. A seco
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: How to Read Like a Professor AP Literature Bundle
The Great Gatsby - Valley of Ashes Setting Visual
This easy to plan assignment is great for getting students to understand Fitzgerald's language & stylistic choices in Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby.
These tasks cards guide students through a visualization of the Valley of Ashes. I recommend doing step 1 as a Do Now or quick write. You could also read the first 3 paragraphs of the chapter aloud, having student jot down descriptors as you read.
The rest of the task could easily be done individually as a more formal graded assignment or in
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9th - 12th
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Sample- New Year's Character Reflection Task Cards
This Common Core aligned product is a sample of a larger set of 20 characterization task cards. This activity requires students to think critically about the character(s) being addressed, as well as to support their answers with evidence.Some of the tasks ask students to reflect on the past year, or the year to come. Others focus more on characterization, in general (types of conflict the character has been involved in, internal and external traits, etc.). Therefore, these task cards can be
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4th - 9th
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The Great Gatsby - Character Map Task Cards
This activity is great at the start of the novel, ideally around the end of chapter 1. This task card asks students to map our the main characters using evidence as justification for their explanations.
This is great to do individually or in small groups. It can be as formal or informal as you want!
You could also revisit these maps later to see how they have changed by the end of the text. It could be a great way to bookend your reading & character analysis.
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9th - 12th
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare Picture Prompts for Creative Writing
Transform your ELA lessons with these Picture Prompts for Macbeth by William Shakespeare! Ideal for literature exploration, these 10 polaroid-themed prompts serve as dynamic bell ringers, homework assignments, or sub lessons. Each prompt comes with a dedicated 5 senses worksheet, optimizing student engagement and getting them to consider sensory imagery in their descriptive or narrative writing. Perfect for introducing the play or for a creative writing lesson based on Shakespeare's popular pie
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: The Plays of William Shakespeare Growing Mega Bundle
Figurative Language Task Cards--ELA
Description: These task cards allow students to be creative and explore different types of figurative language. The cards provide different scenarios with the target figurative language at the bottom of each card.
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: The Ultimate Poetry Task Card Bundle Digital Resource
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