I blogged about these cards on my other blog, Teaching With a Mountain View, and when I did that, I typed them up so that I could share them (You can get them FREE here!).
I use these ALL the time. They sit in my guided reading basket, and sometimes I even pull them out after I finish a read aloud for the day. I love to see where student thinking is with these! They are also great for getting students to start asking their own questions about reading in a more guided format. I don't even require that students write down their responses every time, especially in small groups. I will give each of the students in a small group a card, and they generate the question and their answer all in their head and then share out. Love doing this as a quick check!
I also use task cards for pre-reading activities! I will give each student one of twelve pre-reading task cards (You can get them FREE here!) before we start reading and have them each work through it. Most of them are made to only take 5 minutes or less, so then the students share out their card and their response to the card, and as a class, we have completed a comprehensive pre-reading activity!
Last year, we used both of these cards so much that I knew I needed something different, and I knew that I needed something that aligned closely with the Common Core and with the skills we were working on. There are a lot of reading response prompts out there (and some are excellent), but I needed something that would really push my students to think. I needed to create something that the students would read, sit back and think about, and then read again before being able to answer the questions.
At the time, we were looking closely at story elements, so I decided to create the set to support that skill. Again, I wanted a set that I could use over and over again so that students could really see some common themes in books.
This set has cards for Problem & Solution, Characters, Setting, and Theme |
This set has cards for Fact & Opinion, Author's Purpose, Main Idea, Point of View, Compare & Contrast, Inference, and Cause & Effect |
6 pages condensed into one 1.5. This is a great way to save on ink and paper, too! |
Easy peasy to print a mini set! |
Here is a comparison of how much smaller the cards are than a regular quarter page task card. |
I also have two other sets of Reading Skills Task Cards that I can vouch for because they are WONDERFUL:
Lit Sparks Reading Response Task Cards by Rachel Lynette
Common Core Reading Response Task Cards (4th Grade) by Laura Love to Teach
If you have a set that you have used or made, feel free to link to them in the comments section of this post. I am ALWAYS looking for new and fresh ways for my students to respond to reading!
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