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PARAPHRASING Practice Task Cards
Are you looking for a paraphrasing activity to guide your students into restating it in their own words? Do your students tend to copy sentences straight out of a book? These simple yet engaging paraphrasing task cards will grab your students' attention with their high-interest topics and unusual facts. This resource is perfect for mini-lessons, small group instruction, or adding it to a writing center.What's Included:32 High-Interest Paraphrasing CardsParaphrasing How To Poster2 Student Answer
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2nd - 3rd
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Transition Words and Phrases Lists, Worksheets, Task Cards, and Easel Activity
Transition Words and Phrases Lists, Task Cards, and Sorting Activities. Transitional words and transitional phrases are useful in writing clear and fluent paragraphs, but students need to be familiar with when to use them. Includes a Word Splash of Transition Words with a graphic organizer for word sorting, several different handouts with lists of useful transition words, and a categorizing worksheet for groups to work on and discuss, and a set of 36 task cards. Digital and Print: I have also ma
Grades:
5th - 8th
4th and 5th Grade Writing and Grammar Task Card Center Kit
If your school is anything like mine, it's incredibly difficult to find the time for students to practice the necessary grammar and foundational writing skills for expository and creative writing. This kit includes the essential components of a self-contained, no-maintenance center that students can work on throughout the year.
The kit includes 90 task cards focusing on main idea and the construction of an argument, creative brainstorming, word choice, sentence structure, and standard 4th and
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4th - 5th
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Revising Practice Task Cards
The focus of this resource is ALL REVISING. Provided in three formats: Printable, Google Forms, and TpT Digital Overlay. Perfect for face to face or distance learning because the content is identical in all three formats. Fun test prep! Great practice to master the skill of revising. Use for independent practice in learning stations, playing scoot, or work on the cards individually, in groups, or online. When students are finished with the practice questions, use the bonus free quiz to assess
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Revising and Editing Grammar Practice 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
Grades:
1st - 6th
Women's History Month Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions March Activity
Want your students to learn about some amazing women in history? This Women’s History Literacy Set in print and digital is filled with engaging passages and activities. It has 12 biography passages that target Main Idea, Text Evidence, Cause and Effect, Inferences, Close Reading, and Point of View. It includes context clues, and figurative language. Your students will love the 32 mini-biography shades of meaning (vocabulary) task cards, as well as the poetry timeline activity.It includes:12 Pass
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4th - 5th
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Women's History Biography Cards (Daily Routine)
Are you looking for a way to integrate women’s history into your classroom daily, even though it might not be in your curriculum? I was, so I created this product. WHAT OTHER HERITAGE MONTH CARDS ARE THERE?Black History Profile Cards (February)Women's History Profile Cards (March)Hispanic Heritage Profile Cards (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)Asian Pacific Heritage Profile Cards (May)Native American Heritage Profile Cards (November)Profile Card BUNDLELOOKING FOR A DIGITAL VERSION WITH LIVE LINKS?Black Histo
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Biography Card Bundle (Daily Routine)
Transition Word Task Cards
Transitions words and phrases are like traffic signals; they are essential to keeping a smooth "flow!" Without appropriate transitions, the reader may get lost, lose interest, or simply CRASH into confusion! These 15 road trip-themed task cards will help your students identify the best transition words and phrases to connect ideas. I have incorporated a variety of time-order, compare/contrast, cause and effect, and addition/elaboration transition words, such as:- First, next, then, after that, f
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4th - 6th
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Common Grammar Errors Activity Bundle | Identifying Writing Errors Practice
Common grammar errors can keep students from presenting their best writing. These grammar activities are the perfect way to connect grammar to writing and end common grammar and writing errors.With a variety of activities and materials, this bundle for common grammar errors will work throughout the school year for you. Writing problems addressed in this grammar bundle: √ parallelism√ subject-verb agreement√ pronoun-antecedent agreement √ adjective and adverb confusion√ errors in verb moods√ inco
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7th - 10th
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Claim & Evidence Matching Task Cards
These task cards are a great way for students to practice matching claims with accurate evidence. Included in this set are 12 claim cards along with 12 matching evidence cards. All evidence is factual and was found using reliable internet resources. A student sheet and answer key are included.
Use these task cards as a table/partner activity, during classroom stations or as a literacy center task.
To take these cards a step further, once students have matched the cards, you might ask studen
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5th - 9th
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100 Writing Prompts
Included are 100 writing prompts. These are perfect for Daily 5, writing centers, early finishers, or morning work. Simply cut (there are 9 per page) and laminate (if you choose). You can either put them in a jar or folder for kids to choose. They simply pick one out and write what the prompt tells them. Students can write their stories in their journal or on writing paper.
Included are opinion, persuasive, narrative, how to, informative expository, and imaginative writing prompts! Also include
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: 100 Reading & 100 Writing Prompts BUNDLED
Riding Freedom Novel Study for Book Clubs Literature Circles
Includes these discussion cards: Riding Freedom (Muñoz Ryan) Discussion Cards in black and white PLUS so much more! *UPDATED* 5/9/2020 to include a Google drive version. I created this novel study to help my students engage with the wonderful novel, Riding Freedom, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. This packet can be used for independent work and/or small group work and includes character study, vocabulary, conflict analysis, figurative language, theme, and more. The study is aligned with Virginia SOLs (Standa
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Riding Freedom Book Clubs Literature Circles BUNDLE
Work On Writing - May/June/July
****MAY/JUNE/JULY WORK ON WRITING CENTERS****
How will this resource help make my planning easier?
If you’re anything like me, you are constantly trying to improve your writing station. Searching for new ideas, scrambling to get things prepped and ready, wishing you had “just one more thing” to keep your kids excited about writing and engaged in the process. Does this sound familiar?! The activities and task cards in this resource were created to help make all of that easier for you! Help kee
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Work On Writing - The Year Long Bundle
Thesis Statement Task Cards
These 20 task cards are perfect for reinforcing thesis statement writing skills.
Skills addressed:
-Identify is thesis statement is strong or weak & explain why
-Writing thesis statements with three points
-Edit and rewrite poor thesis statements
-Restate thesis statements for conclusion paragraph
-Edit & rewrite thesis statement for verb tense consistency
Recording sheet and answer key with suggested answers are included. I love this specific task card as a small group activity or as
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6th - 8th
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Crafting Topic Sentences for Expository Essays
This product is teacher-approved and student-tested. The need for this product developed after observing our 4th graders struggle with expository writing. Also, knowing that this is the first year they are exposed to expository writing and tested on it made it even more important to us. Not only will students practice noticing and/or writing good topic sentences, but it will also allow them to see well supported expository paragraphs. You will find 3 different activities in this unit:-Topic S
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3rd - 5th
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Fortnite Revising Task Cards: Inserting Sentences
These revising task cards focus on inserting sentences into an expository piece of writing about Fortnite. The focus is on TEKS 4.18A, 4.18B, and 4.18C. Your students will be required to insert a sentence that creates a clear central idea, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences in both the paragraph and at the end of the essay. Included:One expository essay about Fortnite8 revising questions that cover inserting sentencesAnswer KeyI chose to use the exact font and verbiage that is used
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3rd - 5th
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MLA Citation Task Card Stations
In this MLA citation activity, your students will learn and practice how to properly cite videos, articles (online and in print), websites, and books using MLA citation format in a bibliography. This task can be adapted to ANY content requiring MLA citation of websites, books, videos, and articles. Set up as 4 stations, students will rotate and complete 2 task cards per station following the master citation sheet (MLA anchor chart) for that station. The activity can be repeated multiple times du
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Fourth Grade Mega Bundle of Resources
Main Idea Match & Worksheets
This main idea match set includes the following:
- 20 main idea sets (with main idea sentence and four supporting detail sentences)
- answer key for main idea sets
- 3 individual assessment worksheets with answer keys
The main idea match cards can be used as a center activity for individual students or cooperative learning groups. Students work to sort the cards by topic and either identify the main idea sentence card (when included at the center) or develop their own main idea sentence (when m
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4th - 8th
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Debate Topics - Task Cards
These Task Cards have 20 high-interest, student-centered Debate Topics that your kids will LOVE arguing over!
Contains:
• Suggested activity for using these task cards in your classroom (full lesson plan included!)
• Materials for suggested activity
• 20 task cards (available in both color and BW for easy printing!) that you can laminate (or not!) and use over and over again!
The perfect addition to any opinion writing, persuasive writing, argument writing, or debating unit that you use!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Writing Instruction Bundle for Middle School
Elaboration Practice - Hands-on Activity / Worksheet
Elaboration is one of the more difficult writing skills to teach. Repeated exposure to different examples is imperative. In this activity, students analyze twenty different examples of commentary and try to classify each as one of the six given types of elaboration or explanation : Fact, Example, Definition, Reason, Importance, or Process. It includes a handout/reference sheet that defines and gives an exemplar of each type and lists “look fors,” signal words or traits that will help student
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5th - 7th
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Would You Rather Opinion Question Writing Task Cards
63 funny and gross would you rather questions for primary school children.This activity helps students learn to form an opinion for persuasive writing. How Can it be Used?The idea of the game is that you ask your students a “Would you rather” question, and each person has to decide and justify their answer. You can run this many ways depending on your class size and reference. For example, you can have students raise their hands for each option, stand up or sit down, move round the room as a bra
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Back to School Classroom Decor and Community Building Bundle
Nonfiction Text Structures: Writing / Discussion Prompt Task Cards
Four task cards are provided for each of the five main text structures (cause and effect, chronological/sequencing, compare/contrast, problem/solution, description). Twenty task cards total. Each card reminds students of the "signal words" that can be used to show each specific text structure. Each card includes a prompt for writing/discussion/graphic organizing that can be easily applied to the given text structure.
Several ideas for classroom use included!
Ink-saver (border-free) version p
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4th - 7th
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Daily Paraphrase Practice for Text Based Writing
Many students struggle with putting text in their own words. Using this resource, teachers will give students practice 3 times a week. Students are given text to paraphrase. This short practice, a few times a week, will have them doing the skill correctly in no time. Teachers should model when students are finished or give feedback on students' work.Visit my Freebie Vault for loads of free resources that go along with this purchase.Free Video Writing Lessons click “Trial” on the left for the
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3rd - 6th
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Persuasive Opinion Writing Prompt Task Cards - Black and White Ink Friendly
These Persuasive Writing Prompt Task Cards include 40 different persuasive writing prompts. They have been designed to make opinion writing fun and interesting. They can be used in multiple ways including whole class activities or in literacy groups. This pack also includes 2 opinion writing planner templates which can be used with the task cards. They are a perfect scaffold to help writers organize their ideas and opinions. They are Black and White and look super cute when printed on bright col
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PreK - 6th
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