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Short stories task card pdfs
Fluency Task Cards BUNDLE | A FULL YEAR of Fluency Practice | Science of Reading
A HUGE (discounted) bundle of 360 themed Fluency Task Cards with varied sentence types to help your students practice their oral reading fluency all year! The following task card sets are included in this MEGA Fluency Bundle! This year-long fluency task card bundle includes a mix of NONFICTION & FICTION texts designed specifically with reading fluency in mind.January *Winter Fun* February *Presidents* March *A Trip to Ireland* April *Titanic* May *Spring Fling* June *End of The Year/Summer
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3rd - 5th
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Recount Stories, Fables, Folktales and Myths RL.3.2 Task Cards for 3rd Grade
Are you struggling to find easy-to-read fables, folktales and myths for your 3rd graders? This task card resource was created just for them! Appealing cartoons and fun stories grab your students' interest, which makes meeting RL.3.2 fun and easy.This no-prep resource is perfect for centers and group work. Just print and go! The digital Easel version (which is included) can be used on any electronic device, and is self-checking. Directions are easy, helping students be self-directed.===========
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3rd
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Ultimate Language Arts Year-Long Bundle
Theme Task Cards Printable/Digital (Grades 2-5)
Theme Task Cards: Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Legends This digital and printable product offers multiple levels of reading differentiation and audio accommodations!Aligns with State and Common Core Standards!Students first learn theme vocabulary and topics before progressing to identifying the theme in a story.These materials can be used for whole or small group instruction, remediation, centers, home school, summer school, and as individual assessments in person or through distance learning!Thi
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2nd - 5th
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Story Elements for Google Classroom
Eight high-interest digital and print stories that are SELF-CHECKING in Google Classroom. Perfect for inferring literary elements, they are presented in both printable and self-checking digital Google Forms versions. The literary element questions cover inferring, setting, characters, plot, conflict and resolution. This resource is perfect for direct instruction, RtI, small group instruction, or learning stations.In all, there are eight fictional stories and 32 questions. The stories include Ae
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Task Cards Bundle
Story Starters Creative Writing Prompts
Looking for a FUN and ENGAGING way to captivate your students' interest and enhance their writing skills? Look no further!
Have students who struggle with getting started when writing? Tired or hearing, "but I don't know what to write about!"? Well then, this is the product for you!
"Story Starters" are 24 writing task cards that provide students with the beginning sentence of a story and let their imaginations do the rest!
10-page packet includes:
Teacher directions
24 Prompt Task Cards
Brai
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1st - 6th
Plot Diagram Practice with Superhero & Villain Origin Stories: Print and Digital
Have students practice filling out Plot Diagrams with these engaging superhero origin stories and supervillain origin stories. Students will identify the Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution. in 6 different origin stories. Origin stories include: Spiderman, The Flash, Mr. Fantastic, The Joker, Poison Ivy, and Mr. Freeze. Product includes 3 different ways to use the origin stories to help you with differentiation. These ways include Task Card, File Folde
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Plot Elements Unit BUNDLE
Reading Comprehension Short Stories for Identifying Beginning, Middle, & End
Reading Comprehension Short Stories for Identifying the Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story! I frequently see this IEP goal: "Student will be able to identify the beginning, middle, and ending of a story." Hence the reason behind creating this resource. This reading comprehension resource is a great place to start when working on this beginning comprehension skill. It includes 12 short stories with pictures and story mats for sequencing the beginning, middle, and end of the story. The teacher
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PreK - 2nd
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Main Idea Task Cards Short Passages
*UPDATED* New design and fixed passages 1/12/2220 short passages that will help your students master the skill of recognizing main ideas!CONTENTS:*20 Task Cards *1 Answer Sheet*1 Guided Answer Sheet*Main Idea definition poster in color + black and white*Answer Key*Main Idea Cover Task Card*Main Idea definition reminder cards for studentsThese are great for group use, individual use, centers and even whole class work.Depending on your intentions these will work great for 1st-3rd grade. Ideal for
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Task Cards Bundle Inference - Over 100 Cards!
Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Use these 10 short stories with accompanying questions to target comprehension, story structure, vocabulary, idioms, main idea, predicting and inferencing skills.
Read the story and then ask the questions on the next page or preview the questions before reading the story to help with comprehension. The card then asks the student to retell the story in their own words after answering the questions to target expressive language skills.
Includes an image for each story to support understanding
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3rd - 10th
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Sequencing Center--30 Five Sentence Stories
My absolute best seller is ready to be used in YOUR classroom.
Need some extra activities for sequencing? Here's a great product for you! There are 30 stories with five sentences each. Just copy, laminate, and cut apart each story. Store individual stories in envelopes.
Stories are each coded with graphics geared toward the story--makes for easy sorting.
Use these story sets 2 ways:
1. Whole Group Activity: Pass out the cards to one story and have students come to the front. Other stu
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2nd - 4th
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Story Elements Game: 30 Story Cards, Anchor Chart, Game Board, Answer Key
Great practice for learning about main characters, setting, conflict, & resolution of story.
Game:
30 story cards, an anchor chart, game board, and answer key
Each story card asks:
1. Who is the main character?
2. What is the setting?
3. What is the conflict?
4. What is the resolution?
Students can play in a small group or individually, as a student directed activity.
Enjoy!
CSL...a teacher's helper
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2nd - 4th
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Sequence 123- ordering pictures & telling stories. PDF & Easel Activity
“Sequence 123” allows students to learn the skill of sequencing pictures to then tell a story. Students get a set of 3 pictures and decide which order they should be in: Which picture is 1st, 2nd and then 3rd. If students have difficulty sequencing the pictures encourage them to look at the characters, events and movements within each picture.Once students have put the pictures into the correct sequence use the matching prompt card to complete activities about the picture set. Prompt cards inc
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PreK - 2nd
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Expanding Expressive Receptive Language, Speech Sentence Building Increasing MLU
Expand expressive language using wh- questions and sentence generation prompts with real pictures. Improve expressive language, answering questions, labeling verbs, and story generation! What, where, and who questions are included for every picture!⭐ Expanding Language with Real Pictures80 real life pictures3 wh- questions for every storyFree response prompt for every storyLarge variety of actions and topics within picturesWhat, where, and who questions for every storyPrintable pages⭐ Targeted S
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1st - 3rd
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Auditory Memory Magic
Target auditory memory with the variety of games and visuals included in this resource. Your students will be able to improve their auditory memory, listening skills, and comprehension by playing these fun and engaging games. Plus, with a "magic" theme, they'll be intrigued to play!***************************************************************************What awesome auditory memory activities are included?★ Visual of memory strategies★ Repeat It Back: A board is provided to use with this game.
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2nd - 8th
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Writing Stimulus {Writing Prompts}
Writing Stimulus / Creative Writing Prompts:Writing Stimulus Task Cards | Creative Writing Prompts | Writing Stimulus Task Cards | Creative Writing Prompts | We as teachers expect our students to create pieces of writing on a regular basis - whether it be a narrative, short story, poem or creative writing piece. What we don't think about is how hard the children find it to actually get those creative juices flowing and think about topics to write about. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to s
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1st - 6th
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RL 3.3 Character Traits, Responses, & Motivations - Differentiated Stories
RL 3.3 Character Responses, Traits & MotivationsThere are 14 reading passages with comprehension questions, task cards, writing prompts, and an exit ticket in this product. Page 1: Teacher Directions/Concept Development - How Characters Influence PlotPage 2-13: -2 stories showing how two different characters change the plot. (8 total reading passages for this section.)-2 sections with questions for the individual stories.-1 page comparing how the characters influenced the plot.Page 14 &1
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3rd
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Also included in: Third Grade Reading Bundle - RL CCSS
Inference Fiction Task Cards, Inferring Reading Group,Guided, Independent,Shared
These 50 cards can be printed off and laminated, or use on a smart board. This is a versatile reading resource. Student's are able to work on these individually or in a group. They provide reading skills necessary to help improve reading and writing for a range of age groups. There are answer keys to every card, so student's can check their working or for the teacher to mark individually. Inferring is a key part of teaching student's to read effectively and these provide an interesting, colourfu
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3rd - 9th
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A Christmas Carol Escape Room
Escape Room Activity: A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensHave your students demonstrate their knowledge of this popular novel with a highly-engaging interactive escape room! This works great as a culminating activity after your students/class have finished the book.No keys or lock boxes needed!Less Prep for teachers as students will cut out the cards for each task!This escape room contains four activities:1. Plot Elements: Students will correctly order the plot cards. There are 4 extra distract
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6th - 9th
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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
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6th - 10th
Finding Theme Task Cards - Short Stories & Extension Activities
PRINT and TEACH! There are many different ways to use these cards to help your students identify common themes in stories. They can be read independently, in small groups, or you might consider reading them out loud for a whole class discussion. They also work well at reading centers, especially when combined with the challenge cards.
There are two different assessments included, short answer and multiple choice. Answer keys are provided for both. There is also a Reading Log included so studen
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4th - 6th
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Listening Comprehension Short Stories Speech Therapy, Special Ed, ESL, ELA
This low prep unit contains listening comprehension stories for 3-4 sentence length paragraphs. Designed for listening comprehension, these stories are great for SLPs, special education teachers, interventionists, and ELA teachers. The short length is perfect for students with language impairments, ADHD, and other special learning needs. What will you get? There are 20 fiction stories and 20 non-fiction stories✨ Each story is 3-4 sentences long. There is a combination of simple, compound, comple
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Speech Therapy Comprehension Bundle GROWING
Story Elements Game & Definition Matching Cards
Activities help students understand characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, climax, rising & falling actions.
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30 sentence cards to match to 5 different story element cards and an answer key
- Characters
- Setting
- Conflict
- Plot
- Resolution
Activity 2:
8 definitions to match to 8 different story element cards and an answer key
- Characters
- Setting
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- Plot
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
Cut and pri
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2nd - 4th
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DIGITAL Descriptive Writing Prompts for Use with Google Classroom
My kids are VERY visual learners, which is why I made this resource for my kiddos. Included are 40 pictures, each having a first line to their story. The first couple of sentences are sometimes the hardest for my 3rd graders, and these cards just give them a little nudge to get thinking about the picture and the rest of their writing. This is a DIGITAL file, which means that this can be used with Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Classroom.There are a ton of ways to use these prompts. *Des
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: ULTIMATE Digital Resource Bundle to Use with Google Classroom
Task Cards for "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" - PRINT & DIGITAL
29 task cards. Use the timeless short story, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," by Rudyard Kipling, to teach your students how to closely analyze literature through the use of task cards. This lesson plan includes 5 prereading task cards and 24 post reading task cards that require students to analyze character motivation, theme, setting, conflict, plot, and much more.These task cards work perfectly for individual, small group, or whole class assignments, as during reading assignments or assessments, as interac
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5th - 8th
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