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High school literature task cards under $5
Discussion Skills Challenge Task Cards - Great for Socratic Seminars
Do you have students who struggle with participating in group discussions? Or others who over-share their opinions but rarely ask questions to others? Do you conduct Socratic Seminars but struggle to see student growth? These challenge cards can help! Learning to engage in meaningful discussions is one of the most valuable lessons we teach in the ELA classroom. These cards aim to help students become more aware of the different types of contributions they can make in group discussions, while als
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6th - 9th
Reading Response Question Cards for Any Book-- Multi-grade Usage
These 100 question cards for any novel will help your students engage in meaningful and insightful discussions about the books they are reading. The cards address setting, characters, plot, theme, symbolism, point of view, style, and more! Students will need to use reading strategies such as inference, summarizing, comparing and contrasting etc. to dig deeper into the text.These cards work for grades 3 through 12-- seriously! They are universal questions that work in conjunction with any novel
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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The Giver Activity - A World Without Pain Article and Novel Assignment
The Giver Activity - A World Without Pain Article and Novel Assignment is a ready-to-use resource that will allow students to examine a world with no pain as the community members experience in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the novel, community members have been completely sheltered from feeling any emotional or physical pain. While this seems positive, Jonas comes to realize that just as there is no pain without memory, there is also no true happiness. Allow your students to make a real-world c
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6th - 9th
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Inferences High School Task Cards Exit Tickets Short Stories Inferencing
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice inferences can be challenging. ELA Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenging. Making inferences task cards are great to use as bell ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Help your high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students practice their reading comprehension. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 20
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8th - 11th
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Figurative Language Task Cards: Quizzes, Activities, Bell-Ringers
Help your students understand elements of figurative language with this set of 32 task cards. Each card features a passage from a famous work of literature, along with a prompt asking students to identify and/or explain the device's function. The cards can work with both middle and high school students.
A recording sheet and an answer key are included in both Word and PDF formats (the task cards themselves are a PDF). These cards work well as a paired, partnered, or group activity. Print, cut,
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7th - 12th
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Figurative Language in Everyday Use TASK CARDS
Students often know the names of various figurative language techniques, but when it comes down to identifying them in use and explaining their effect, they often struggle. Therefore, these Task Cards focus on assessing that ability. **************************************************************************LOOKING FOR A DIGITAL VERSION? These worksheets are designed to be printed and completed on paper. If you would prefer a DIGITAL VERSION, CLICK HERE!*******************************************
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle
Point of View – Worksheets, Task Cards, Quizzes
"I really enjoyed this source and found a variety of ways to use it in multiple ways for a few days worth of lessons. It was super informative and really clarified the students' questions." - Amanda R."Awesome resource for reteaching POV in small groups... the passages are appropriate for middle school and great examples to use!" - NagelhoutreadsDo your students struggle trying to understand the different points of view? Are you looking for high interest and relevant novel excerpts to help your
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5th - 9th
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Task Cards for Flowers for Algernon - DIGITAL & PRINT
"The Flowers for Algernon task cards are a great resource to implement immediately! Visually appealing, easy to use text box entry, and more than enough information to get the kids thinking and responding." - Kelly H."The varied tasks on these Flowers for Algernon task cards made differentiating for our students a breeze, even in our current distance learning situation! My co-teacher and I were looking for a way to have students work on a collaborative GoogleSlides while we were reading the "Flo
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6th - 9th
Figurative Language in Famous Fiction TASK CARDS
Students often know the names of various figurative language techniques, but when it comes down to identifying them in use and explaining their effect, they often struggle. Therefore, these Task Cards focus on assessing that ability. ************************************************************************** Looking for a DIGITAL version? This resource is designed to be printed, if you would prefer a digital version to be used with Google slides™, CLICK HERE. ***********************************
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle
Halloween Figurative Language Task Cards for Bell-Ringers, Quizzes, Discussion
Celebrate Halloween and Fall in your classroom with this set of 24 figurative language task cards. Featuring classic and contemporary Halloween themed literature and poetry, each card prompts students to identify a specific element of figurative language and explain its use.
Passages on the cards feature writing from Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Stephanie Meyer.
Elements of figurative language included are:
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Personification
• H
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7th - 12th
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Analyzing Diction Task Cards: Quizzes, Bell-Ringers, Worksheet
Help your students make sense of how authors use language to inform meaning with this set of 30 diction task cards. Each card features a different literary passage and prompt, asking students to identify analyze the passage's diction. Tasks include identifying and explaining denotation and connotation, abstract and concrete diction, slang, and jargon.
These 30 task cards (two on a sheet, as they are larger to include longer passages) can be used as bell-ringers, group work, quizzes, or review a
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8th - 12th
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The Giver Activity - Dream Sharing Class Simulation Novel Interactive Activity
The Giver Dream Sharing Activity is a fun and interactive classroom activity that allows students to empathize with Jonas from The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the novel, the members of Jonas' community must share their dreams in a daily dream sharing family ritual. This activity allows students to simulate this ritual in the classroom by forming a family group and sharing one dream they have felt lately based on prompting cards with common dream elements. Then, they will have the chance to interpret
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6th - 10th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summaries - Plot Cards for Harper Lee's Novel
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summary Cards are an excellent classroom reference for both teacher and student. These 29 printable chapter summary cards outline the most important plot moments from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Simply print and cut out the cards, and you have a resource available that can be used as a tool for struggling readers, as a quick way to find plot moments, or as a tool to find text evidence during essay writing. Included in The To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Crucible Task Cards: Activities, Quizzes, Discussion Questions
Tired of discussing the same old questions when teaching Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible? Looking for a way to freshen up your unit or lesson plans? The 32 questions on these task cards cover all aspects of the play and are designed to really get your students thinking.
How can you use these cards? After each act, have students work in pairs with one of the cards and present their answer to the rest of the class. These cards can also be used as bell ringers, exit slips, or even quizzes. You
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9th - 12th
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The Outsiders Chapter Summaries - Plot Summary Cards for S.E. Hinton's Novel
The Outsiders Chapter Summaries Cards are an excellent classroom reference for both teacher and student. These twelve printable chapter summary cards outline the most important plot moments from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Simply print and cut out the cards, and you have a resource available that can be used as a tool for struggling readers, as a quick way to find plot moments, or as a tool to find text evidence during essay writing. This is included in our best-selling novel unit plan:>>
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Unit Plan - S.E. Hinton Novel Study Reading Unit
Analyzing Syntax in Literature Task Cards: Quizzes, Bell-Ringers, Worksheet
Help your students make sense of how and why authors use of sentence structure to inform meaning with this set of 36 task cards. Each card features a different literary passage and prompt, asking students to identify the syntactical device being used and its effect.
The cards cover elements such as:
• Punctuation
• Sentence length
• Anaphora
• Sentence types
• Polysyndeton
• Rhetorical questions
• Apostrophe
• Rhetorical fragments
• and more!
Students can keep track of their work on the recor
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9th - 12th
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Independent Reading Task Cards
Task cards are versatile tools that make your students active and reflective learners. These cards can also help you manage independent reading, something that can be difficult when students are at various places in different books. The questions on these cards can help them have meaningful discussions about books, even though they aren't reading the same thing.
Suggestions for Use:
-Draw cards randomly for full class discussion or to use as a writing prompt.
-Set up learning stations (one
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Reading workshop bundle for middle or high school reader's workshop
Mood and Tone Task Cards
Teaching mood and tone? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Mood and Tone Task Cards. Product addresses mood (the reader's emotional response) and tone (the author's attitude) with excerpts from classic and popular literature. Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Jumbo Task Card Bundle - Volume 2
Shakespearean Insults Task Cards: Fun Translation Activity, Bell-Ringers
Bring some excitement to your Shakespeare unit with these insult task cards. With 32 task cares featuring different insults from Shakespeare's plays, these cards can be used in a variety of ways. Put students in group, giving them a bunch of cards with instructions to translate as many insults as possible. Use them as bell-ringers or exit slips, or even as an emergency lesson plan.
These activities can be used at the beginning of or throughout your Shakespeare unit and work especially well fo
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Independent Novel Discussion Questions - Book Club or Literature Circle Activity
Independent Novel Discussion Questions - Book Club or Literature Circle Activity: Encourage discussions in your classroom during book clubs or literature circles with our Independent Novel Discussion Questions resource. This ready-to-use resource allows students to have meaningful conversations about their independent novels with others in the class (even if they aren't reading the same books!). The included questions are versatile and can be applied to any novel, fostering a dynamic and engagin
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6th - 12th
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Types of Conflict "Escape Room" Stations Activity
This activity allows students to actively review the types of conflict in literature while fostering collaboration and teamwork. Two levels of complexity are included. These can be used as stand alone worksheets or as an active station escape room activity.
Students work together to crack the code to the automated Google Forms lock to "escape" the room.
Effectively addresses the six types of conflict: Character vs. Character, Character vs. Self, Character vs. Society, Character vs. Supernatu
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5th - 9th
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The Scarlet Letter Task Cards: Quizzes, Discussion Questions, Bell-Ringers
Tired of discussing the same old questions when teaching Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter? Looking for a way to freshen up your unit? The 100 questions on these task cards cover all aspects of the novel and are designed to really get your students thinking. Each chapter has four cards, including The Custom House Introduction.
How can you use these cards? After each chapter, have students work in pairs with one of the cards and present their answer to the rest of the class. These
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9th - 12th
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Beowulf: Task Cards for Your Classroom Literary Terms , Anglo Saxon, Epic Poem
Beowulf, 20 Task Cards
ALL cards are tailored specifically toward Beowulf. And just added...an answer key for all 20 cards! (on 6/25/13)
Set Includes:
Compare and Contrast, Context Clues
Validity, Cause / Effect
Point of View,
Main Idea, Development
The epic, Anglo Saxon Hero
Grendel and Grendel’s Mother
Anglo Saxon Beliefs
Epithets, Kennings
Hrothgar
Riddles
Alliteration
The Dragon, and Unferth
symbolism
There is a student log sheet so you can keep track for credit!
-The task cards c
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Task Cards for Literary Analysis of Any Story or Novel - DIGITAL & PRINT
“I teach a lot of short stories in my class. This resource was great because it was adaptable to all stories. It was also great because of the alignment to the Common Core.” - Judith “This is an excellent resource for novel studies! I used these with my enrichment groups in fourth grade ELA on different novels. I put them on a ring and had them complete different assignments each week, some with my guidance and most without. Love it!” - Kelly “It's easy to use these cards with multiple texts, wh
Grades:
6th - 10th
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