4th Grade Other (ELA) Task Cards

A Whole School Year Of Daily Writing Prompts for Year 3-6 Students

Transform your classroom with our comprehensive set of daily writing prompts designed specifically for Year 3-6 students. This collection spans the entire US school year, ensuring your students engage in writing activities that are not only fun but also educational and seasonally relevant.

What's Inside:

• Seasonal Prompts: Reflect the changing seasons and keep students excited about their writing. From the vibrant colours of fall to the blossoming flowers of spring, each prompt captures the essence of the time of year.
• Holiday Themed Writing: Celebrate and explore major holidays with prompts that spark creativity and deepen understanding. Students can write about Thanksgiving traditions, New Year resolutions, and more.
• Variety of Writing Styles: Keep your students engaged with a mix of writing styles. They can craft imaginative stories, write heartfelt poems, recount personal experiences, stories, letters and engage in thoughtful self reflection.
• Personal Recounts: Help students develop their narrative skills by writing about their own experiences and sharing their unique perspectives.
• Self Reflection: Encourage introspection with prompts that ask students to reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and growth throughout the year.

Additional Features:

• PDF and PowerPoint Versions: Receive the daily writing prompts for each month as a PDF version for easy printing and a PowerPoint version for digital use, making it simple to display the prompts in your classroom.
• Engaging and Diverse: Each writing prompt is designed to captivate students’ interest and cater to different learning styles.
• Aligned with the US School Year: Ensures that daily writing prompts are relevant and timely, enhancing students’ connection with their writing.
• Boosts Writing Skills: Regular writing practice helps improve literacy, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and distribute the prompts, or display them on your classroom board for daily use.

Make writing an exciting daily adventure for your Year 3-6 students with our year-long collection of daily writing prompts. Perfect for morning work, journal entries, or creative writing assignments, this resource is a must-have for any elementary classroom.

** August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May and June Writing Prompts **

Check out some of the individual resources

August Writing Prompts

September Writing Prompts

October Writing Prompts

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This English Language Arts Task Cards BUNDLE was created for educators who teach multi-level students in the area of language arts (or speech pathology). This file includes ALL 50 of the ELA task cards resources in my shop as of 9/4/20.

NOTE: This bundle does NOT include BOOM CARDS™. All of the files in this bundle DO include a digital distance learning option in Google™. All the files include Google Slides™ and the majority of them also include Google Forms™ (those that have multiple choice options on the task cards).

Please refer to the final 7 pages of each product file for instructions and links for Google Slides™ and Google Forms™.

This is NOT a growing bundle. You will receive every ELA task card file in my shop that was listed on or before 9/4/20.

Please see the individual listings in the bundle for more information.

This file includes task cards and activities covering the following ELA topics:

• Abbreviations
• Alliteration
• Analogies
• Apostrophes
• Capitalization
• Cause and Effect
• Character Traits
• Commas
• Common and Proper Nouns
• Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
• Context Clues for 2nd-4th Grade
• Context Clues for 3rd-5th Grade
• Context Clues for 4th-6th Grade
• Dictionary Skills
• Fact or Opinion
• Formal and Informal Language
• Genres of Literature
• Helping, Action, and Linking Verbs
• Homonyms
• Homophones for 1st-3rd Grade
• Homophones for 3rd-6th Grade
• Hyperboles
• Idioms
• Irregular Verbs
• Main Idea
• Making Inferences
• Nonfiction Text Features
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Point of View
• Point of View Sorting
• Possessive Nouns
• Prefixes
• Pronouns
• Proverbs and Adages
• Puns
• Quotation Marks
• Reference Sources
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Run-Ons, Fragments, and Complete Sentences
• Shades of Meaning
• Similes and Metaphors
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
• Singular and Plural Nouns
• Subject Verb Agreement
• Suffixes
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Theme
• Types of Sentences
• Types of Sentences Sorting
• Verb Tenses

Please ask any questions you might have PRIOR to purchasing this product.

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

As of 9/3/20, every product in this bundle includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet (please check the final 7 pages).

Technology Requirements:

• A Google Drive account
• If sharing with students, a Drive account that is linked to student Google accounts
• Can be shared/delivered on Google Classroom
• Only need access to Google Drive--no outside links to worry about!

This file can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, and desktops as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The digital portion of these products are on Google Slides™ (and in most cases, Google Forms™).

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Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

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Figurative Language Activities, Worksheets, Task Cards, & Anchor Charts BUNDLE:

It's time to make figurative language instruction FUN for YOU and for your STUDENTS!
These figurative language worksheets, task cards, and anchor charts NOW include a digital distance learning option in Google Slides AND Google Forms (as well as the printable PDF files).

This Figurative Language Activities and Task Cards BUNDLE was created for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, and includes EIGHT figurative language products.

The figures of speech covered in this bundle include hyperboles, similes and metaphors, idioms, proverbs and adages, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns.

These are the links to the individual products:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #1: HYPERBOLES
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #2: SIMILES AND METAPHORS
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #3: IDIOMS
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #4: PROVERBS AND ADAGES
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #5: PERSONIFICATION
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #6: ALLITERATION
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #7: ONOMATOPOEIA
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #8: PUNS

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Descriptions of each product are as follows:

HYPERBOLES:

This hyperbole activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for students who are learning figures of speech. You will find anchor charts with sample hyperboles, task cards, and worksheets.

This file includes:

• 4 hyperbole instructional pages and examples
• 36 task cards (students identify the hyperbole on 12 cards, finish hyperbole sentences on 12 cards, and create 12 hyperboles from regular sentences)
• 3 activity pages
• answer sheets
• answer keys where appropriate

SIMILES AND METAPHORS:

This simile and metaphor worksheets, task cards, and activities pack was created for 3rd-6th grade. You can use it for whole class figurative language instruction, literacy stations or centers, or in small groups.

This file includes:

• 4 instructional sheets
• 36 task cards with varying student requirements
• a task card answer sheet
• task card answer key
• three worksheets (answers on the worksheets will vary)

IDIOMS:

You will find everything you need to provide a fun opportunity for students to learn all about idioms.

This idioms worksheets, task cards, and activities product was created for 3rd-6th grade and includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 5 full pages of common idioms and their meanings (67 idioms included)
• 36 task cards with three different question types
• 1 answer sheet
• 1 task card answer key
• 2 printable activity pages
• 1 page for a whole class idioms game

PROVERBS AND ADAGES:

This proverbs and adages figurative language activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for teachers who need task cards, sample proverbs, their meaning, and worksheets!

This file includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 7 pages of common proverbs and adages
• 24 task cards
• an answer sheet
• an answer key
• 3 activity sheets

Please note that, as per the common core standards, this packet does NOT focus on the difference between proverbs and adages, but instead on the contextual meaning of proverbs and adages.

PERSONIFICATION:

These personification activities are perfect for teachers who want their 3rd-6th graders to better understand how personification is used to enhance the written and spoken word.

This product includes:

• 3 instructional pages
• a personification word list (2 pages with over 150 words) for common human traits and actions that can be used to personify writing
• 36 personification task cards with a variety of questions
• a task card answers sheet (2 pages)
• a task card answer key (2 pages)
• 4 pages of activities.

ALLITERATION:

Alliteration is always amazing! This alliteration activity was created for 3rd-6th grade and will give you everything you need to engage students in fun and meaningful alliteration poems, activities, and worksheet.

This file includes:

• 2 alliteration instructional sheets
• 20 task cards with varying student requirements
• a task card answer sheet
• an acrostic poetry exercise
• a tongue twister partner activity
• a class book template for an alliteration picture book
• number poetry
• alliteration in common phrases

ONOMATOPOEIA:

These onomatopoeia worksheets, task cards, and anchor charts are perfect for students learning about figures of speech. You will find reference pages with common onomatopoeia words and the corresponding things or animals that those sounds come from. This file is perfect for 3rd-6th grade

This onomatopoeia file includes:

• an instructional poster
• a list of 90 common onomatopoeia words
• 24 task cards with three distinct question types
• an answer sheet
• a task card answer key
• 5 onomatopoeia worksheets

PUNS:

This puns task cards product is an engaging figurative language word play activity for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.

This puns word play product includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 30 task cards (two per page)
• task card answer sheets
• task card answer keys
• 4 puns no prep printable activity sheets

This figurative language bell ringer can be used as a daily warm-up, early finisher, or homework activity (designed to be 4-6 minutes each day including correcting and/or discussion time). Check it out here:

• DAILY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WARM-UPS

Figurative Language Mystery Pixel Art Color by Number Task Cards Activity for Idioms, Similes and Metaphors, Proverbs and Adages, Alliteration, Hyperboles, Onomatopoeia, Personification, and Puns

These mystery pixel art color-by-code activities are the perfect way to engage students!

These figurative language pixel art activities were created for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. You can use it for whole-class figurative language instruction, literacy stations or centers, or in small groups.

EACH FILE includes:

• Several instructional pages (anchor charts)
• 20 task cards related to the figure of speech with a variety of question types
• A task card answers sheet
• A task card answer key
• ONE color by number page
• ONE pixel art digital Google Sheet

NOTE: Please refer to the final seven pages of the product for the Google Sheet and instructions.

Individual figurative language color-by-number pixel art activities from THE BUNDLE can be found here:

• Alliteration Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Hyperbole Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Idioms Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Onomatopoeia Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Personification Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Proverbs and Adages Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Puns Color by Number Pixel Art Activity
• Similes and Metaphors Color by Number Pixel Art Activity

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

NOTE: You will find the link and instructions for the Google Sheet on the final seven pages of the file.

NEED MORE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRACTICE? SAVE MONEY WITH THIS BUNDLE!

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE MEGA BUNDLE

This figurative language product is for a daily warm-up, early finisher, or homework activity (designed to be 4-6 minutes each day, including correcting and/or discussion time). Check it out here:

• DAILY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WARM-UPS

Figurative Language Activities: Posters, Task Cards, Anchor Charts, and Worksheets MEGA BUNDLE

This Figurative Language MEGA BUNDLE is created for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, and includes EIGHT figurative language task cards products, daily figurative language bell ringers for one year, and two differentiated figurative language sorting activities (they contain the same content, but one activity uses cards and the other one uses sticky notes).

The figures of speech covered in this mega bundle include hyperboles, similes and metaphors, idioms, proverbs and adages, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns.

These are the links to the individual Figurative Language products:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #1: HYPERBOLES
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #2: SIMILES AND METAPHORS
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #3: IDIOMS
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #4: PROVERBS AND ADAGES
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #5: PERSONIFICATION
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #6: ALLITERATION
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #7: ONOMATOPOEIA
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #8: PUNS

Link to the Daily Figurative Language Warm-Ups for One Year:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE BELL RINGERS

Links for the Differentiated Figurative Language Sorting Products:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SORTING ACTIVITY
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SORTING ACTIVITY USING STICKY NOTES

Descriptions of each product are as follows:

HYPERBOLES:

This hyperbole activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for students who are learning figures of speech. You will find anchor charts with sample hyperboles, task cards, and worksheets.

This file includes:

• 4 hyperbole instructional pages and examples
• 36 task cards (students identify the hyperbole on 12 cards, finish hyperbole sentences on 12 cards, and create 12 hyperboles from regular sentences)
• 3 activity pages
• answer sheets
• answer keys where appropriate

SIMILES AND METAPHORS:

This simile and metaphor worksheets, task cards, and activities pack was created for 3rd-6th grade. You can use it for whole class figurative language instruction, literacy stations or centers, or in small groups.

This file includes:

• 4 instructional sheets
• 36 task cards with varying student requirements
• a task card answer sheet
• task card answer key
• three worksheets (answers on the worksheets will vary)

IDIOMS:

There are few things more fun to teach than figures of speech! These idioms anchor charts, task cards, and activities don't feel like work because they are hilarious, engaging, and exciting.

You will find everything you need to provide a fun opportunity for students to learn all about idioms.

This idioms worksheets, task cards, and activities product was created for 3rd-6th grade and includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 5 full pages of common idioms and their meanings (67 idioms included)
• 36 task cards with three different question types
• 1 answer sheet
• 1 task card answer key
• 2 printable activity pages
• 1 page for a whole class idioms game

PROVERBS AND ADAGES:

This proverbs and adages figurative language activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for teachers who need task cards, sample proverbs, their meaning, and worksheets!

This file includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 7 pages of common proverbs and adages
• 24 task cards
• an answer sheet
• an answer key
• 3 activity sheets

Please note that, as per the common core standards, this packet does NOT focus on the difference between proverbs and adages, but instead on the contextual meaning of proverbs and adages.

PERSONIFICATION:

These personification activities are perfect for teachers who want their 3rd-6th graders to better understand how personification is used to enhance the written and spoken word.

This product includes:

• 3 instructional pages
• a personification word list (2 pages with over 150 words) for common human traits and actions that can be used to personify writing
• 36 personification task cards with a variety of questions
• a task card answers sheet (2 pages)
• a task card answer key (2 pages)
• 4 pages of activities

ALLITERATION:

Alliteration is always amazing! This alliteration activity was created for 3rd-6th grade and will give you everything you need to engage students in fun and meaningful alliteration poems, activities, and worksheet.

This file includes:

• 2 alliteration instructional sheets
• 20 task cards with varying student requirements
• a task card answer sheet
• an acrostic poetry exercise
• a tongue twister partner activity
• a class book template for an alliteration picture book
• number poetry
• alliteration in common phrases

ONOMATOPOEIA:

These onomatopoeia worksheets, task cards, and anchor charts are perfect for students learning about figures of speech. You will find reference pages with common onomatopoeia words and the corresponding things or animals that those sounds come from. This file is perfect for 3rd-6th grade.

This onomatopoeia file includes:

• an instructional poster
• a list of 90 common onomatopoeia words
• 24 task cards with three distinct question types
• an answer sheet
• a task card answer key
• 5 onomatopoeia worksheets

PUNS:

This puns task cards product is an engaging figurative language word play activity for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.

This puns word play product includes:

• 2 instructional pages
• 30 task cards (two per page)
• task card answer sheets
• task card answer keys
• 4 puns no prep printable activity sheets

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE BELL RINGERS:

Incorporate figures of speech in your daily bell ringers using these figurative language activities! These daily warm-up bell ringers contain:

• optional cover pages in color or black-and-white
• 38 weeks of daily figurative language activities
• 30 reference pages (related to metaphors, similes, idioms, hyperboles, proverbs, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
• answer keys (13 pages)
• a certificate of completion

You will truly be over the moon with this daily figurative language warm-up product!

Designed for an entire year, this packet can also be used at any point in the year because of the spiraling layout (each figure of speech shows up every eight weeks and then repeats until the final 14 weeks, where all the figures of speech are combined). This layout ensures that your students walk out of your class with a firm grasp on each figurative language element.

Used as a warm-up, homework, or an early finisher activity, each figurative language activity is designed to last 3-6 minutes and is common core aligned for 3rd-6th grade.

For specific information about the layout, please see below.

Week:

1- Metaphors

2- Similes

3- Idioms

4- Hyperboles

5- Proverbs and Adages

6- Personification

7- Alliteration

8- Onomatopoeia

9- Metaphors

10- Similes

11- Idioms

12- Hyperboles

13- Proverbs and Adages

14- Personification

15- Alliteration

16- Onomatopoeia

17- Metaphors

18- Similes

19- Idioms

20- Hyperboles

21- Proverbs and Adages

22- Personification

23- Alliteration

24- Onomatopoeia

25- Similes and Metaphors

26- Idioms and Hyperboles

27- Proverbs and Personification

28- Alliteration and Onomatopoeia

29- Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, and Hyperboles

30- Proverbs, Personification, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia

31-38- ALL figurative language COMBINED in the final 8 weeks

Following the weekly activity pages, you will find:

• 37 pages of figurative language reference material
• 13 pages of answer keys
• 2 certificate of achievement (full color or black-and-white for distribution upon completion of the unit)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SORTING ACTIVITY (AND STICKY NOTE SORT):

This differentiated activity for figurative language includes hyperboles, metaphors, similes, puns, proverbs/adages, idioms, onomatopoeia, personification, and alliteration.

There are over 200 figures of speech that can be categorized in each area. Created for 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade, this activity is perfect for individuals, pairs, small groups, or the whole class.

DIFFERENTIATION:

• There are full color cards and category toppers for students who are new to figures of speech (or for ESL students who are learning the language). Each figure of speech is color coded (all idioms are green, for example).
• The black and white cards and category toppers are designed for students who are familiar with figures of speech, but need practice.
• The answer sheets are also differentiated.

You can choose to:

• allow students to do the activity without an answer sheet
• use the answer sheet that simply requires students to write the number of each figure of speech next to the correct category
• use the answer sheet that also requires students to provide evidence for their choice

IDEAS FOR USE:

• use as a test review

• use as a game- groups work to complete the activity first (with the highest accuracy)

• use as an introduction for each figure of speech (the color coded set)

• use as an evaluation

• use during stations on a bulletin board or white board

• use as a catalyst for a class discussion on figures of speech

• use as a review at the beginning of the year for students who have been exposed to figurative language

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

These products include a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.