Description

These Reading Response Task Cards feature a unique and engaging “Must Do, Choose Two” system to ensure your students cover important fiction and non-fiction reading skills while also developing independence. Display two activities that students must complete, and then have students choose two task cards to answer.

The task cards include both fiction and non-fiction/informational reading response activities. The open nature of this activity means that it can be used again and again.

When you download this resource, it comes in both US AND British English spellings and printing sizes.

Our Reading Response Task Cards resource includes:

37 fiction task cards
26 non-fiction informational text task cards
1 “Must Do, Choose Two!” display heading

The following fiction reading skills are covered:

Make Connections
Determine Importance
Character Analysis
Ask Questions
Visualize/Visualise
Inference
Theme
Plot
Sequence
Summarize/Summarise
Point of View
Cause and Effect
Evaluate
Compare and Contrast
Creative Thinking
Vocabulary
Genre

The following non-fiction reading skills are covered:

Author’s Purpose
Text Features
Vocabulary
Main Idea
Summarize/Summarise
Ask Questions
Make Connections
Organization of Ideas
Prior Knowledge
Find Specific Details
Research Skills
Fact or Opinion

Suggested Use:

Model how to use this resource. Show your expectations for how to set out their answers in their exercise book (or on a digital device).
Print and laminate the Must Do, Choose two task cards and the Must Do, Choose Two heading.
Display your task cards in a highly visible part of the classroom, showing two Must do task cards and a range of “can do” options.

When you download this resource, it comes in both US AND British English spellings and printing sizes.

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