4th Grade Writing Task Cards

Back to School Writing Activity | First Day of School ELA Activity

By Aimee in Elementary

Welcome students back to school with an engaging writing activity! This is the perfect activity for beginning of the year / first day / first week of school.

This resource includes 11 task cards with questions that focus on "getting to know you", reflection, and goal setting. It's a great way to ease students back into writing and language arts while also being meaningful.

Directions for Use:

Print:

  1. Print (optional laminate) one copy the WELCOME BACK task cards.

  2. Print one recording sheet per student.

Activity Directions:

  1. Place task cards with questions around the room.

  2. Provide each student with a recording sheet.

  3. Explain the activity: students will move around the room, read each task card, and write their answers on the corresponding boxes on their recording sheets.

Tips:

  1. Emphasize clarity in writing answers and encourage students to ask for help if needed.

  2. Monitor the activity to ensure all students are engaged and progressing.

  3. Collect recording sheets once students have completed all task cards.

  4. Review answers as needed and provide feedback.

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Halloween - Would You Rather Writing Prompt Task Cards

By Sassycat Corner

Engage your students writing this Halloween with creative Halloween writing prompts! This resource includes the fun of Would You Rather Halloween-themed questions with interactive writing activities available in a print pdf format. You get 9 pages of task cards, 4 to a page. 36 Would You Rather cards in all! Perfect for building writing skills, class discussions, and boosting creativity in your classroom or at home.

Why You’ll Love This Resource

  • Boosts Student Engagement: Get your students talking, thinking, and writing with Halloween Would You Rather questions that spark curiosity and creativity.
  • Versatile Use: Ideal for writing prompts, classroom discussions, community-building activities, polls, brain breaks, or even daily journal entries.
  • Interactive and Fun: Students can discuss their choice in small groups or whole group, or print their responses, giving them flexibility to write or discuss.

Printable:

  • 36 Task Cards / Writing Prompts - with color clip art. Can be printed in black and white by choosing grayscale as a print option.
  • 3 Printable sheets for students to organize their thoughts and write out their answers.

How to Use This Resource:

  • Classroom Writing Prompts: Use the Halloween writing prompts to encourage students to develop their writing skills by exploring fun, spooky scenarios.
  • Class Discussions & Brain Breaks: Facilitate conversations using the Would You Rather questions, encouraging students to share and explain their opinions.

Your students will have SPOOKTACULAR Halloween fun this school year with this activity. Halloween Would You Rather is always lots of fun for students!

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Halloween - Would You Rather Writing Prompt Task Cards

By Sassycat Corner

Engage your students writing this Halloween with creative Halloween writing prompts! This resource includes the fun of Would You Rather Halloween-themed questions with interactive writing activities available in a print pdf format. You get 9 pages of task cards, 4 to a page. 36 Would You Rather cards in all! Perfect for building writing skills, class discussions, and boosting creativity in your classroom or at home.

Why You’ll Love This Resource

  • Boosts Student Engagement: Get your students talking, thinking, and writing with Halloween Would You Rather questions that spark curiosity and creativity.
  • Versatile Use: Ideal for writing prompts, classroom discussions, community-building activities, polls, brain breaks, or even daily journal entries.
  • Interactive and Fun: Students can discuss their choice in small groups or whole group, or print their responses, giving them flexibility to write or discuss.

Printable:

  • 36 Task Cards / Writing Prompts - with color clip art. Can be printed in black and white by choosing grayscale as a print option.
  • 3 Printable sheets for students to organize their thoughts and write out their answers.

How to Use This Resource:

  • Classroom Writing Prompts: Use the Halloween writing prompts to encourage students to develop their writing skills by exploring fun, spooky scenarios.
  • Class Discussions & Brain Breaks: Facilitate conversations using the Would You Rather questions, encouraging students to share and explain their opinions.

Your students will have SPOOKTACULAR Halloween fun this school year with this activity. Halloween Would You Rather is always lots of fun for students!

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100th day of school would you rather 100th day of school activity task cards

By Modz by Laila

This 100th Day of School Would You Rather activity is a set of versatile worksheets and task cards designed for 2nd to 5th-grade students to engage in a fun activity on the 100th day of school Teachers can use these resources during whole group lessons, small group writing instruction, or as independent work.

Benefits:

  • Reusable resource by printing and laminating the cards

  • Great for the 100th day of school writing activity

  • Promotes interesting conversations among students

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

To implement this product, print and laminate the task cards. Use them during whole group activities, small group writing lessons, or as independent work for students. It's also a fantastic option for a 100th-day celebration activity.

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52 Journal Writing Prompt Cards

By Clodagh

Unlock Creativity with 52 Journal Writing Prompt Cards

Want to try journal writing in your class but your students are stuck with no ideas? Unlock the power of self-expression, creativity, and social and emotional learning with our 52 Journal Writing Prompt Cards. These versatile cards are an invaluable tool to enhance your students' journaling practice, encouraging personal reflection and growth.

These journal writing prompt cards will:

Empower Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): These Journal Writing Prompt Cards are tailored to foster essential social and emotional skills in students. From building empathy to self-awareness, these prompts provide a structured and enjoyable way for students to explore their emotions and relationships.

Boost Creativity and Imagination: Are your students facing writer's block? These prompt cards serve as inspiration to spark their imagination, fuel their creativity, and develop their storytelling and self-reflection abilities.

Convenient and Portable: These journal writing compact cards are designed to fit seamlessly into your classroom. Whether you have a class set, or have several sets ready to use in your journal writing sessions!

Promote Mindfulness and Reflection: Journal writing is a powerful mindfulness exercise, and these cards encourage students to stay present and explore their thoughts and feelings. Through journal writing, they can gain valuable insights into their inner world.

Ideal for Years 3-6: Whether your students are beginners or seasoned at journal writing, these cards are suitable for year 3-6 students with powerful questions for them to answer.

How to Use:

  • Have students select a card at random or choose one that resonates with them.
  • Ask students to reflect on the prompt and express their thoughts in their journals.
  • Encourage students to continue writing, exploring, and expanding on their ideas as they flow.

Foster Social and Emotional Learning with 52 Journal Writing Prompt Cards:

Empower your students to explore their emotions, build meaningful connections, and enhance their social and emotional skills through journaling.

Elevate your students' journaling experience, nurture their social and emotional growth, and grab these 52 Journal Writing Prompt Cards today.

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Cupcake Common and Proper Nouns Activities

By Inspired By MlG

Cupcake Common and Proper Nouns Activities Learn to distinguish between common nouns and proper nouns with fun cupcake-themed activities! Students will sort cupcakes into categories, then write sentences using their favorite nouns. A sweet way to master grammar skills!
How it Benefits Students:

  • Engaging Learning: The cupcake theme makes learning fun and relatable, capturing students' attention.

  • Concrete Understanding: Visualizing nouns as cupcakes helps students grasp the abstract concepts of common and proper nouns.

  • Hands-on Practice: Sorting activities provide a kinesthetic approach to learning, reinforcing understanding.

  • Creative Expression: Writing sentences with chosen nouns encourages students to apply their knowledge and develop their writing skills.

  • Improved Language Skills: By practicing identifying and using common and proper nouns, students enhance their vocabulary and grammar proficiency.

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Prompt Cards or Posters Characters & Settings Narrative Writing | Creative Texts

By Teachin Tips

Do your students need help with making their stories interesting? Then check out these Narrative Writing Characters and Settings Cards/Posters. They are a great way to help your kids use different types of interesting characters, settings and objects in their narrative texts and to enhance their story writing abilities. Includes visuals and adjectives for student use!

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✏️ Narrative Writing - 28 Character Cards

✏️ Narrative Writing - 28 Setting Cards

✏️ Narrative Writing - 28 Object Cards

✏️ All pages include a version with & without a border

✏️ Visuals and short description to enhance students' creative thinking

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Writing Prompts Task Cards - September Edition

By Sassycat Corner

Ready to write? This set of 24 writing prompts task cards for September will help you get your writing center started in your class. These slightly simpler prompts give your second, third, and fourth grade students both fiction and non-fiction questions to answer, asking for them to write lists, paragraphs, letters, and simple main idea / details answers, depending upon the question. Also included are two cover pages for both a full size and a half size journal, and four writing to pages to print multiple copies of and bind together with the covers to create student journals. You can choose from simple lines or from primary dotted lines for your journal pages.

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Gratitude Writing Prompts Cards | Bell Ringers

By My Mindful Classroom

Gratitude Prompt Cards for the Classroom

Inspire Your Classroom with Gratitude!

Our Gratitude Prompt Cards, perfect for students aged 8 to 12, are designed for classroom use. These 25 prompts encourage gratitude, creativity, and positive discussions.

Features:

  1. Classroom-focused design
  2. Encourage self-expression
  3. Boost emotional well-being
  4. Spark discussions
  5. Strengthen classroom bonds and resolve conflicts

This resource includes

  • 25 writing prompt cards (2 design options)
  • PDF file 11 x 8.5 in (4 cards per page)
  • How to Use Tips page

If you like this resource, you may also like:

My Gratitude Journal

Thanksgiving Punny Gift Tags for Students

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For personal and teaching purposes only.

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Writing Revision Tools: Peer & Self Feedback Bookmarks & Task Cards

By Betsy Newmeyer

Help your students develop and improve their own writing through working with critique groups to give and receive peer feedback and self feedback. This resource includes 10 different bookmarks for giving feedback (including the Glow and Grow sentence frames) as well as critique group task card roles for both informative and narrative writing. The mix and match task cards can be tailored to each student group.

What's Included?

6 Critique Group bookmarks

4 Self Revision/Editing bookmarks

8 Narrative Story Critique Group Task Cards

8 Informational Writing Critique Group Task Cards

You may also like: 

Peer Feedback & Writing Reflection Forms for Critique Groups

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Complex Sentences Hands-On Grammar Activities and Scoot for Comma Rules Practice

By Betsy Newmeyer

Get your kids to build complex sentences out of dependent and independent clauses these interactive grammar activities and Scoot. Each one of the 20 included sentences is broken down into separate dependent and independent clauses, which students have to physically manipulate to rebuild and punctuate using the correct punctuation marks. Whether you choose to use the activity as a whole class game, small group activity, scoot, or independent assignment, your students will be engaged and learning the whole time.

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Appositives

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Introductory Element Comma Hands-On Grammar Activities for Comma Rules Practice

By Betsy Newmeyer

In this collaborative, interactive, hands-on grammar activity, students work with partners to physically build sentences with the introductory element comma, and independent clause. You can use this resource as a whole class Inside-Outside Circle activity, small group guided instruction activity, scoot, or independent assignment, and your young writers will be engaged and learning the whole time. Differentiating for a wide range of student abilities is easy with this resource.

When I used this resource with my 5th graders, I did the inside-outside circle activity first. I stood in the center of the circles where I could talk to each pair of students. If a pair felt their sentence combo didn't work, I tried to help them think of a context where that sentence combo could work. It really helped the kids see more possibilities with their writing. When we were done, each pair of students took the sentence they'd created and wrote a paragraph on an index card to flesh the sentence out. Each pair then presented to the class. I immediately noticed that their writing was much more rich and virtually dripped with voice.

Resource includes:

  • Teacher Directions
  • 20 independent clauses/sentences
  • 33 Introductory Elements
  • Scoot Task Cards: Sentences
  • Complete the Sentence worksheet
  • Scoot Task Cards: Introductory Element
  • Complete the Introductory Element worksheet
  • 40 commas

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Hands-On Grammar: Appositive Sentences

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Writing Prompts Task Cards - August Edition

By Sassycat Corner

Ready to write? This set of 24 writing prompts task cards for August will help you get your writing center started in your class. These slightly simpler prompts give your second, third, and fourth grade students both fiction and non-fiction questions to answer, asking for them to write lists, paragraphs, letters, and simple main idea / details answers, depending upon the question. Also included are two cover pages for both a full size and a half size journal, and four writing to pages to print multiple copies of and bind together with the covers to create student journals. You can choose from simple lines or from primary dotted lines for your journal pages.

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My Monsters Writing Prompt Task Cards

By Sassycat Corner

My Monsters writing prompts task cards offer 24 different colorful task cards with individual writing prompts based around a monster's theme. Great for Halloween or fall themed writing centers, but will work year round! Prompts include things such as "write a how-to paragraph on how to feed and care for a pet monster" or "write a classified ad advertising a job opening for a new monster in your closet".

You get:

24 monster themed writing prompt task cards

4 monster themed writing papers in 2 sizes - half sheet (5 1/2' by 8 1/2" ) AND full sheet (8 1/2" by 11").

2 bonus coloring pages

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Appositive Phrases Hands-On Grammar Activities for Comma Rules Practice

By Betsy Newmeyer

Learning grammar, sentence types, appositive phrases, and punctuation and comma rules really can be fun when it's taught kinesthetically! Get your students building rich sentences with appositives in this interactive, hands-on grammar activity. Each of the 20 included sentences can be cut apart to add one of the appositive phrases set off by two commas. Whether you choose to use the activity as a whole class game, small group activity, scoot, or independent assignment, your students will be engaged and learning the whole time.

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Appositive Phrases: Cloze Reading Passages with Appositives for Grammar Review

By Betsy Newmeyer

If you've taught appositives, but your students need more practice with appositive phrases before they are able to integrate them into their writing, then this activity is for you. This easy prep resource includes 10 cloze reading passages with appositive phrases. Simply print out the passage(s) you want to use, then cut the appositive phrases from the bottom of the page and cut apart. Students can glue each phrase into its appropriate sentence. There are 9 different appositive phrases per passage. Answer key is included.

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Appositives

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Back to School Scoot: Printable, Digital and Editable BTS Scoot Task Cards

By Betsy Newmeyer

These editable digital and printable Back to School Scoot Task Cards are a great (and fun!) way to build community. Each of the 12 ready-to-use task cards includes a Talk About It task and a Write About It task to get students up, moving and breaking the ice. Students get the chance to think and talk before being asked to write and you'll learn a lot about who your students are, their thoughts and opinions, and how well they stay on task and collaborate with peers. This resource also includes the same tasks but in digital form as well as editable blank cards so you can make your own tasks!

What's Included?

  • 12 Printable scoot task cards & posters
  • Google Slides Digital task cards to display on your screen
  • Google Slides Editable blank cards

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Back to School Activities: Writing Activities, Graphic Organizers, & One Pagers

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Compound Sentences Hands-On Grammar Activities for Comma Rules Practice

By Betsy Newmeyer

In these hands-on, interactive grammar activities, students work with partners to build and punctuate compound sentences. It also comes with a SCOOT activity. Use the activity as a whole class game, small group activity, scoot, or independent assignment, and your young writers will be engaged and learning the whole time.

3 Great Ways to Play!

Mix, Mingle, and Match: (can be played with up to 40 students or in small groups)

Each student will have one independent clause/sentence. They must find their perfect match based on the context of the sentences. Then the pairs will combine their two independent clauses together to build a compound sentence, first determining which clause will go first, then adding in the appropriate conjunction before physically adding in the punctuation marks.

Compound Sentence Scoot: (best in pairs, or trios)

  • Copy the worksheets for each student (or pair of students) in your class.
  • Print and cut apart the phrases that will complete each sentence on the worksheet.
  • Tape the independent clause cards up around the classroom.
  • Students scoot around the classroom to match each clause on the task cards to the appropriate matching sentences on the worksheets.

Complete the Sentence Activity: (independent activity)

Students will use the included worksheet to create and fill in an appropriate independent clause for each sentence given.

In My 5th Grade Classroom:

I use all three of these activities in conjunction with the correlating Grammar Bookmark. On Monday, I'll introduce the comma rule and students will use the Compound Sentence Grammar Bookmark to find an example of a compound sentence in a story we've read or a mentor text. Then Tuesday, I'll do the Mix, Mingle and Match activity. I might review the skill again on Wednesday with the Scoot activity. Thursday, we'll do the Complete the Sentence independent activity. By Friday, the kids are able to identify more compound sentences "in the wild" in a book they are reading as well as write compound sentences by themselves. This gives kids multiple opportunities to practice and master the skill throughout the week, using a gradual release teaching method.

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Hands-On Grammar: Appositive Sentences

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Punctuating Dialogue Hands-On Grammar Activities for Grades 3-8

By Betsy Newmeyer

In this collaborative, interactive, hands-on grammar activity, students work with partners to physically build dialogue and practice punctuating it correctly. You can use this resource as a small group guided instruction activity, scoot, or independent assignment, and your young writers will be engaged and learning the whole time. Differentiating for a wide range of student abilities is easy with this resource.

Using this activity with my own 5th graders really helped me see which students were still struggling with the punctuation rules, allowing me to quickly intervene and reteach the skill as needed. My students completed all of the different activities, moving from guided instruction, to partner work, to identifying dialogue in the wild, to finally writing their own lines of dialogue. I recommend using all activities over the course of a full week.

Resource includes:

  • Teacher Directions
  • Dialogue Building Pieces (sentences, dialogue tags, quotation marks, commas, periods, and question marks)
  • Scoot Task Cards
  • Scoot worksheet
  • Dialogue in the Wild worksheet
  • Practice Writing Dialogue worksheet
  • Scoot Answer Key

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Hands-On Grammar: Appositive Sentences

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

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Commas in a Series Hands-On Grammar & Punctuation Activities with Scoot Activity

By Betsy Newmeyer

This printable Commas in a Series activity pack transforms your grammar activities and makes learning comma rules and practicing punctuation rules fun! Includes an interactive, hands-on grammar activity to separate items in a series and a Scoot activity that gets kids up out of their seats and collaborating with peers. Also included are two independent punctuation practice worksheets: Sentence Fix-Up and Complete the Sentence. Who knew the Oxford comma could be this fun!

These activities are perfect for upper elementary and middle school students to review before state testing and can be done as a whole class activity, small group guided instruction, partner practice, or independent assignment that will keep your young writers engaged and learning the whole time. Differentiating for a wide range of student abilities is easy with this resource. **Please note that all 4 of the different activities use the same 20 sentences.

What's Included?

  • Teacher Directions
  • 20 sentence starters
  • 60 Words or phrases
  • 20 and conjunctions and 20 or conjunctions
  • 40 commas
  • 40 periods
  • 20 Scoot Commas in a Series Task Cards
  • Scoot Worksheets
  • Complete the Sentence worksheets
  • Sentence Fix Up worksheets
  • Answer Key

How to Prep Your Materials

Simply print the activity pages that you want, then cut the cards apart. The worksheets are all print and go resources.

In My Classroom:

I used the hands-on activity with my 4th and 5th graders as test prep for next week's end of year state test. All 30 Students were paired up and given one sentence starter. The phrases the students needed in order to complete their sentences were placed in plastic eggs (1 phrase per egg) and scattered around our classroom. Students searched for the eggs that held the phrases they needed to complete their sentences. This part was surprisingly a little tricky for my kids. Some kids got so dang excited about building sentences but totally forgot to read the sentences to make sure they made sense. To alleviate this issue, you might want to place all 3 phrases in the same plastic egg. The activity took a bit of time due to all of the revisions we needed to make before every team found and built their correct sentence. At the end of the lesson, I created 4 new sentences for the kids to complete, so that I could be sure they understood the concept fully. ***NOTE: Completing this hands-on activity in a guided small group would allow the students a bit more flexibility with their sentences, since some of the phrases can fit in more than one sentence.

For more grammar fun, try my . . .

Hands-On Grammar: Compound Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Complex Sentences

Hands-On Grammar: Tag Questions

Hands-On Grammar: Appositive Sentences

Interactive Comma Rules Activity

Interactive Grammar Bookmarks

Spin a Great Story: Printable Game Spinners

I'd love to hear how you use this resource in your classroom! Feel free to email me at iteachiwrite@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions you may have. And don't forget to rate this product in order to earn TeachShare Credits for future purchases!

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