Middle School Valentine's Day Task Cards

Celebrate Valentine's Day in ELA with these engaging set of 30 task cards covering figurative language devices in popular love songs!

These fun and colorful task cards are the perfect addition to your teacher's toolbox during season of love. Each card features lines from popular love songs with figurative language from artists such as Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran, and Justin Bieber. Also included is a student answer sheet (both in color and black and white) for students to identify the figurative language exemplified in each lyric. These cards are a great way to have a little fun on Valentine's Day without sacrificing learning. Your students will love seeing how their favorite songs are just brimming with figurative language and will appreciate your willingness to relate to them through contemporary music!

Presentation covers:

- Metaphor

- Simile

- Hyperbole

- Oxymoron

- Idiom

- Personification

- Onomatopoeia

- Allusion

- Alliteration

Also included in this product are word banks, student answer sheet, answer key for teachers, and black and white version of cards.

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⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

Save 20% on this product featuring a set of fun and colorful task cards and corresponding PowerPoint Presentation that prompt students to identify the figurative language in popular love songs!

This engaging PowerPoint Presentation and set of task cards are the perfect addition to your teacher's toolbox during season of love. The resources feature lines from popular love songs with figurative language from artists such as Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran, and Justin Bieber. Also included is a student answer sheet (both in color and black and white) for students to identify the figurative language exemplified in each lyric. These cards and PowerPoint are a great way to have a little fun on Valentine's Day without sacrificing learning. Your students will love seeing how their favorite songs are just brimming with figurative language and will appreciate your willingness to relate to them through contemporary music!

Included in this Product:

- Set of 30 Task Cards

- 34-Slide Powerpoint Presentation

- Word Banks

- Student Answer Sheets

- Teacher Answer Key

- Black and White Version of Cards

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Also, check out these great Valentine's Day resources from Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

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Make learning about the history of Valentine's Day fun with this engaging, hands-on task card escape room. This activity includes 16 task cards that are broken down into 4 levels or puzzle types, giving students a chance to practice nonfiction reading comprehension skills while actively decoding puzzles.

Lead your students to discover information about Valentine's Day history by exploring it on their own before teaching or have them use it to review information. Students will answer questions that can be found directly in their reading passage, so there is no prior knowledge needed.

Here's what you'll get:

• two-page reading comprehension passage
• 16 task cards
• student recording sheet
• 4 decoder puzzles
• teacher directions, prep tips and FAQs
• puzzle decoder hints
• answer key

Students will revisit the nonfiction text multiple times, practicing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills as they rotate around the room decoding puzzles. They can work in pairs or individually in a race to complete the 16 questions. This friendly competition is sure to increase engagement!

Prep is quick and easy... NO LOCKS, FANCY ENVELOPES, or HIDING OF CLUES NEEDED! Just print the recording sheets and reading passage, cut and spread out the 16 task cards and decoder puzzles, and let students get to work!

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Marie F. says, "My students had so much fun working together to complete these tasks. It was a great review of skills we had previously learned. It kept them engaged and learning during the craziness of Valentine's week."

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This special education-life skills work activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the chocolates to the correct heart box. There are thirty chocolates that must be placed in the correct candy box. Students will practice their job skills with a fun holiday theme.

Print and laminate for repeated use year after year.

This task box is included in a HUGE Valentine's Day Bundle with activities for an entire week; Math, Literacy, Adapted Books, Fine Motor, and MORE!!!

GRAB THE BUNDLE HERE!!!!!!!!!

This special education telling time math activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the clocks with the hearts and pink theming while working on mastery of skills.

Print and laminate for repeated use year after year.

This Valentine's Day Bundle includes Math and Literacy Activities with a week long unit and four Valentine's Day task boxes. There are also four sets of task cards that can be laminated for repeated use: counting, tracing beginning letter sounds, telling time, and filling a Valentine order.

Included:

Valentine's Day Week Long Unit-

1. Valentine's Book
2. Adapted Book
3. Comprehension
4. Vocabulary Cards
5. Comprehension
6. Vocabulary Definition Match
7. Vocabulary Trace
8. Sorting Holidays
9. Counting
10. Money
11. Search and Count
12. Tracing
13. Cutting
14. Coloring
15. Color by Number
16. Color Sort
17. Size Sort

Valentine's Day Task Boxes-

1. Valentine's Day Beginning Letter Sound and Match- This special education letter sound and tracing activity is Valentines Themed. Students will love tracing their letters and finding the Valentine image that begins with that letter. Students are practicing two skills in one task card set.
2. Valentine's Day Telling Time-This special education telling time math activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the clocks with the hearts and pink theming while working on mastery of skills.
3. Fill a Valentine's Day Heart-This special education-life skills work activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the chocolates to the correct heart box. There are thirty chocolates that must be placed in the correct candy box. Students will practice their job skills with a fun holiday theme.
4. Counting Cupid's Hearts-This special education Valentine theme task box is perfect for practicing counting skills while having some extra fun with the seasonal theme. Students will love counting the hearts that Cupid is shooting in this task card activity.

This Special Education Valentine's Day Task Box Bundle is complete with math and literacy activities. Your students can rotate through these boxes and will love engaging with the bright festive colors and themes. Bring Valentine's Day fun to the hands of all learners with matching options included.

1. Valentine's Day Beginning Letter Sound and Match- This special education letter sound and tracing activity is Valentines Themed. Students will love tracing their letters and finding the Valentine image that begins with that letter. Students are practicing two skills in one task card set.
2. Valentine's Day Telling Time-This special education telling time math activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the clocks with the hearts and pink theming while working on mastery of skills.
3. Fill a Valentine's Day Heart-This special education-life skills work activity is Valentine's Day Themed. Students will enjoy matching the chocolates to the correct heart box. There are thirty chocolates that must be placed in the correct candy box. Students will practice their job skills with a fun holiday theme.
4. Counting Cupid's Hearts-This special education Valentine theme task box is perfect for practicing counting skills while having some extra fun with the seasonal theme. Students will love counting the hearts that Cupid is shooting in this task card activity.

Laminate and add velcro for repeated use year after year.

Do you need a low-prep Valentine's Day reading and vocabulary activity that covers a wide range of analogies? Would it be nice to welcome February with an analogy activity in traditional task cards, black and white printable task cards, powerpoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile set of Valentine's Day themed analogy task cards has your February analogy practice covered. 

36 Valentine's Day Analogy Task Cards in 5 formats:

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

PLEASE NOTE: The questions and tasks on these cards may be identical to my other holiday themed sets of the same skill. Please check the preview to see all the academic content in detail.

To Prepare Valentine's Day Analogy Task Cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Valentine's Day Analogy Task Cards in Action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a language arts station.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More resources from Curious Classroom Adventures:

4th Grade Printable and Digital Daily Language Practice MEGA BUNDLE

3rd Grade Printable and Digital Daily Language Practice MEGA BUNDLE

Novel Study Library

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Do you need a low-prep Valentine's Day activity for converting measurements as part of your February math class? Would it be nice to celebrate Valentine's with options for traditional task cards, black and white printable task cards, powerpoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile set of Valentine's Day themed converting measurements task cards has your February measurement practice covered. Includes customary units of length, weight, and volume. Some computation involving 2-digit x 1 digit multiplication and fractions.

36 Valentine's Day Converting Measurements Task Cards in 5 formats:

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative learning structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Concepts Included in Valentine's Day Converting Measurements Task Cards:

• customary measurements of length
• customary measurements of weight
• customary measurements of volume
• computation involving 2-digit x 1 digit multiplication
• computation involving fractions

PLEASE NOTE: The math problems in this card set are identical to those in my other holiday-themed sets of the same skill. Only the clipart has been changed to match the holiday/season.

To prepare Valentine's Day Converting Measurements Task Cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Valentine's Day Converting Measurements Task Cards in Action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls for Solve the Room.

• Place task cards at a table to be completed as a language arts station.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More resources from Curious Classroom Adventures:

Math Anchor Charts and Math Posters BUNDLE for 3rd Grade and 4th Grade

4th Grade Math ALL YEAR MEGA BUNDLE of Lesson Plans Games and Activities

3rd Grade Math  ALL YEAR BUNDLE of Lesson Plans, Games, and Activities

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Do you need a low-prep Valentine's Day activity for context clues vocabulary skills? Would it be nice to celebrate February with options for traditional task cards, black and white printable task cards, powerpoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile set of Valentine's Day themed context clues task cards has your February vocabulary practice covered. 

36 Valentine's Day Context Clues Task Cards in 5 formats:

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

PLEASE NOTE: The questions and tasks on these cards may be identical to my other holiday themed sets of the same skill. Please check the preview to see all the academic content in detail.

To prepare Valentine's Day Context Clues Task Cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Valentine's Day Context Clues Task Cards in Action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls for Write the Room.
• Place task cards at a table to be completed as a language arts station.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More resources from Curious Classroom Adventures:

4th Grade Printable and Digital Daily Language Practice MEGA BUNDLE

3rd Grade Printable and Digital Daily Language Practice MEGA BUNDLE

Novel Study Library

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Dive deep into your vocabulary building practice with Valentine's Day companion task cards activities for synonyms, antonyms, context clues, and multiple meaning words! With 128 task cards for vocabulary skills your Valentine's Day practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Valentine's Day task cards for your vocabulary stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional vocabulary building task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of Valentine's Day synonyms, antonyms, context clues, and multiple meaning words task cards has multiple levels of your Valentine's Day vocabulary practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 56 Valentine's Day multiple meaning words task cards

✅ 36 Valentine's Day context clues task cards

✅ 32 Valentine's Day synonyms and antonyms task cards

All the Valentine's Day vocabulary building task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

How to prepare the Valentine's Day vocabulary building task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Valentine's Day vocabulary building task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a ELA station activity.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss it as a class.
• Use a few task cards each day as bell ringers.
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

PLEASE NOTE: The questions and tasks on these cards may be identical to my other holiday-themed sets of the same skill. Please check the previews to see all the academic content in detail.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

Valentine's Day Mixed Reading Skills Task Cards - February Practice and Review

Valentine's Day Homophones Task Cards - February Vocabulary Practice Activity

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Permission granted to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.