Text Structure Task Cards

These Text Structure Task Cards are a great way to check student understanding on this important reading skill. Task Cards are a fun way to engage students in standards-aligned activities. You may use these as a warm-up, exit slip, in small group, as a center, a whole-group carousel activity, or SCOOT!

These cards are printed 4 per page and are numbered and labelled for ease of use. Print, cut & laminate your set so it lasts for years to come. Each card has a different paragraph for students to determine if the text structure is chronology (sequence), cause & effect, compare & contrast, problem & solution, and/or description! BONUS: helpful text structure reference sheet with signal words!

The TEXT STRUCTURE Task Cards Set INCLUDES:

•28 student task cards (labelled with its aligning ELA standard)

•4 blank matching cards (easily add your own cards to the set!)

•Each card requires students to read a paragraph and then determine the structure of the written text.

•Types of Text Structure Reference Sheet (for differentiating or to review the skill)

•Student Recording Sheet

•Teacher Answer Key

•self-grading Google Form with 8 questions / passages for students to classify

•8 text structure cards scaled to print at full-size for use with a CAROUSEL activity

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This product ALIGNS to the following standard:

RI.5 - Describe the overall text structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

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Materials are licensed for personal use in one classroom only. For use in multiple classrooms, please help support my work by purchasing additional licenses.

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