Middle School Vocabulary Task Cards

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: 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.

Dive deep in your reading, vocabulary, and grammar practice with 3rd and 4th grade ELA task cards activities and stock your reading stations for the whole year! With over 750 task cards for Language Arts your practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of task cards for all your reading stations, grammar stations, and vocabulary stations ready to go! Take our ELA task cards beyond station work by using them for games, read the room, intervention and more!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional ELAR task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile mega-bundle of reading, vocabulary and grammar task cards has multiple levels of your 3rd and 4th grade language arts practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 fix-the-sentence task cards for editing and revising

✅ 36 figurative language task cards

✅ 36 analogies task cards

✅ 36 compound words task cards

✅ 32 synonyms and antonyms task cards

✅ 36 mixed reading skills task cards

✅ 36 verb types and verb usage task cards

✅ 36 adjectives task cards

✅ 48 alphabetical order task cards

✅ 56 multiple meaning words task cards

✅ 40 nouns and pronouns task cards

✅ 36 abbreviations task cards

✅ 36 context clues task cards

✅ 44 contractions task cards

✅ 40 homophones task cards

✅ 72 prefixes and suffixes task cards (two sets: beginner and intermediate)

✅ 36 sentence type and sentence structure task cards

✅ 36 vocabulary skills task cards - roots, base words, and syllables

All the third and fourth grade ELA reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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 3rd and 4th grade ELA reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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.

Reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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 stations or reading 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.

Check out the previews of the included products for an in-depth look at each set!

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

Dive deep in your reading, vocabulary, and grammar practice with Christmas companion task cards activities! With over 750 task cards for Language Arts your holiday practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Christmas task cards for all your December reading, grammar and vocabulary stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional ELAR task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile mega-bundle of reading, vocabulary and grammar task cards has multiple levels of your Christmas language arts practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 Christmas fix-the-sentence task cards for editing and revising

✅ 36 Christmas figurative language task cards

✅ 36 Christmas analogies task cards

✅ 36 Christmas compound words task cards

✅ 32 Christmas synonyms and antonyms task cards

✅ 36 Christmas mixed reading skills task cards

✅ 36 Christmas verb types and verb usage task cards

✅ 36 Christmas adjectives task cards

✅ 48 Christmas alphabetical order task cards

✅ 56 Christmas multiple meaning words task cards

✅ 40 Christmas nouns and pronouns task cards

✅ 36 Christmas abbreviations task cards

✅ 36 Christmas context clues task cards

✅ 44 Christmas contractions task cards

✅ 36 Christmas commonly misspelled words task cards

✅ 40 Christmas homophones task cards

✅ 72 Christmas prefixes and suffixes task cards (two sets: beginner and intermediate)

✅ 36 Christmas sentence type and sentence structure task cards

✅ 36 Christmas vocabulary skills task cards - roots, base words, and syllables

All the Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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 Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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.

Christmas reading, vocabulary, and grammar 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 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.

Check out the previews of the included products for an in-depth look at each set!

More Great Resources:

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

3rd Grade Print & Digital Daily Language Review Morning Work - ELA Bell Ringers
4th Grade Print & Digital Daily Language Review Bell Ringers - All Year Practice

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Permission granted to copy for single classroom use only.

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

Context Clues Activities: Passages, Worksheets, Task Cards, Anchor Charts MULTI-LEVEL MEGA BUNDLE for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grade

This context clues bundle for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade includes NINE product files! This is a MEGA BUNDLE of THREE BUNDLES context clues bundles which can be found here:

• Context Clues Bundle for 2nd-4th Grade
• Context Clues Bundle for 3rd-5th Grade
• Context Clues Bundle for 4th-6th Grade

If you would like to see individual products with vocabulary words included, please see read the following:

Searching for context clues activities geared for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 2n-4th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES PRINTABLES FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for 3rd-5th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 3rd-5th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES PRINTABLES FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for the4th-6th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 4th-6th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES PRINTABLES FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS DESCRIPTION FOR 2nd-4th:

This no-prep Context Clues task cards product offers print-and-go, common core aligned context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.

This easy-to-use product includes he following:

• Four instructional pages
• 34 (half-sheet) task cards
• Two answer sheets
• Corresponding answer keys (these include sample answers)

PLEASE NOTE: Many teachers have indicated that my context clues products are rigorous for their students. If you are a second-grade teacher, please take a look at the vocabulary words included (as well as the format) to determine the appropriateness for your group this year. Your students may need extra assistance and scaffolding to complete the activities.

Click HERE to view a short video that showcases some of the contents in my context clues products. PLEASE NOTE that the contents of this video showcase context clues products for upper grades with the same task card format uploaded here.

Vocabulary words include:

majority, exhausted, precise, serve, complicated, bothered, appreciation, generous, involves, brief, cherish, starve, suitable, recall, ordeal, method, locate, outcome, route, remark, scattered, sensitive, available, sympathetic, elated, location, opponents, portion, schedule, irritable, terminated, immense, reveal, and rehearse

CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES DESCRIPTION for 2nd-4th:

This no-prep Context Clues Reading Passages product offers print-and-go, common core aligned, easy-to-use context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade. You will also find instructions for digital distance learning through Google Slides.

This product includes:

• four instructional pages to help students identify context clues
• 3 different (full-page) reading passages
• three printable worksheets for each passage
• ALL worksheets do have a corresponding answer key as well

Note: These activities are meant to accompany dictionaries at the teacher's discretion so that students can check the accuracy of their work.

This context clues product includes these vocabulary words: awkward, scenario, attempt, insecure, confident, attached, unsure, resist, urge, regret, vanished, complete, tasks, aware, situation, specific, unusual, local, transported, provide, discover, locate, search, attentively, familiar, distraught, informed, scavenging, shuffle, bizarre, acquired, vision, rely, locate, assortment, domesticated, spines, hollow, defensive, threatened, and connect

CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS DESCRIPTION for 2nd-4th:

This no-prep Context Clues Worksheets product offers print-and-go, common core aligned context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.

This easy-to-use product includes:

• 4 instructional pages
• 4 pages of multiple-choice questions
• 4 pages of fill in the blank
• 2 pages of reading passages followed by worksheets that ask students to define underlined words using context clues (and also look them up in the dictionary to check for accuracy)
• corresponding answer keys

Vocabulary words include: accurate, accuse, anxious, attempt, avoided, assistance, cautious, contains, cruel, certain, courteous, contribute, conflict, consoled, confident, consistently, combination, desire, distracted, dilemma, displays, demolish, entire, essential, exchange, expect, genuine, guide, horrific, improve, indicate, mend, misplace, opinion, opportunity, option, observe, prepare, petrified, probably, purchase, reaction, reverse, repair, ritual, sluggish, scatter, solution, support, tension, unique, vacant, and volunteered

Context Clues Task Cards Description for 3rd-5th:

These context clues task cards and activities were created for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. It requires students to use context to make meaning, as well as identify the words or phrases that helped them understand the meaning of an unknown word.

This context clues task cards product includes:

• anchor charts that will help students identify clues in text
• 34 task cards on half sheets
• answer sheet
• answer key

These task cards can be used in stations, small groups, centers, or for early finishers and includes the answer sheets as well as the answer keys.

The following vocabulary words are used in this product:

exhilarated, flourish, conceal, variety, precisely, eerie, deceitful, antiquated, preserved, decrepit, clenched, improbable, glistened, mimicked, obvious, fragile, commenced, remarkable, withstand, exposed, installed, declared, anxious, gloated, pact, pathetic, suspicious, reluctant, participate, surge, lurk, stunned, glared, trudged

Context Clues Worksheets Description for 3rd-5th:

These Context Clues worksheets offer print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This product includes:

• 4 instructional pages
• 4 pages of multiple choice questions
• 4 pages of fill in the blank
• 2 pages of stories followed by worksheets that ask students to define underlined words using context clues (and also look them up in the dictionary to check for accuracy).

ALL worksheets include a corresponding Answer Key as well.

This context clues product includes the following vocabulary words:

discard, encompass, vigilant, hesitant, irrational, portable, rejects, resolve, alternate, contribute, predict, condone, integrate, document, approximately, coordinate, correspond, alternative, rely, interact, considerable, confer, dimensions, discontinue, clarify, fraud, tentative, sincere, persistent, preserve, monotonous, remorseful, fragrant, overwhelmed, discontinue, significant, maximize, exclude, compensate, convene, self-sufficient, obligated, lucrative, collision, appalled, nurture, distraught, authority, conceal, laceration, grotesque, defeated, baffled, consequence, bewildered, gouge, hesitation, anxious, integrating, feat, capable, fumbled, desperate, conquer, morphed, and officially

Context Clues Reading Passages Description for 3rd-5th:

This no prep Context Clues Reading Passages product offers print and go, common core aligned, easy to use context clues activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This product includes:

• four instructional pages to help students identify context clues
• 3 different (full page) reading passages
• three printable worksheets for each passage
• corresponding answer keys

Note: These activities are meant to accompany dictionaries at the teacher's discretion, so that students can check the accuracy of their work.

This context clues product includes these vocabulary words:

nuances, subtle, arduous, complicates, acquisition, nonsensical, belongings, laborious, exhilarating, incorporate, ensure, trembled, exhausted, attempted, inhale, prevented, anticipation, precision, lyrics, desperation, valiant, defective, escaped, jolted, beamed, remarkable, issued, accumulations, excessive, behoove, accessible, profound, collapse, structural, traipse, massive, secure, locate, effective, havoc, solely, and discretion.

Context Clues Task Cards Description for 4th-6th Grade:

These context clues task cards and activities were created for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. It requires students to use context to make meaning, as well as identify the words or phrases that helped them understand the meaning of an unknown word.

This context clues task cards product includes:

• anchor charts that will help students identify clues in text
• 34 task cards on half sheets
• answer sheet
• answer key

The following vocabulary words are used in this context clues product: rendition, momentum, abundance, deliberately, durable, qualified, technique, postponed, morale, eligible, subsequent, indicated, compartment, diverged, scarce, hindsight, archaic, acquaintance, savory, contagious, antisocial, accountable, endeavor, aversion, implemented, emphatically, emphasis, rigorous, reference, prominent, deterrent, plethora, fatigue, obscure

These context clues task cards can be used in stations, small groups, centers, or for early finishers and includes answer sheets as well as the answer keys.

Context Clues Worksheets Description for 4th-6th Grade:

This Context Clues Worksheets and Anchor Charts product offers print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 4th-6th grade.

This context clues activity includes:

• 4 instructional pages
• 4 pages of multiple choice questions
• 4 pages of fill in the blank
• 2 pages of stories followed by worksheets that ask students to define underlined words using context clues (and also look them up in the dictionary to check for accuracy)
• corresponding answer keys

This context clues product includes the following vocabulary words: provoke, hoax, monotonous, unanimous, frugal, vital, contaminated, persecute, remorse, versatile, meager, stifled, cordial, discretion, duration, confiscated, alternate, comply, bland, treacherous, deprive, crumbled, predicament, lucrative, reminiscing, retaliate, punctured, dominant, absurd, prohibited, inevitable, exhibiting, omitted, priority, probably, lenient, infuriated, predominantly, entice, drastic, abruptly, questionable, alleviate, straightforward, instantaneous, retrieve, attire, contribute, pleaded, disposition, compromise, headway, shrewd, bargain, comply, stipulations, commiserated, muffled, mutual, vindicated, and ascended

Context Clues Reading Passages Description for 4th-6th Grade:

This Context Clues Reading Passages and Anchor Charts product offers print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 4th-6th grade. Please note this file was updated to include a digital distance learning option on 3/29/20.

This context clues activities pack includes:

• 4 instructional pages to help students search for context clues in text
• 3 different full page reading passages: one narrative fiction, one diary entry, and one newspaper article
• 4 pages of printable worksheets for each passage (all written specifically to help students learn how to use context clues to extract meaning)
• ALL worksheets do have a corresponding answer key as well

Note: These context clues activities are meant to accompany dictionaries at the teacher's discretion so that students can check the accuracy of their work.

These vocabulary words are used to teach context clues in this product: proceeded, hesitantly, odor, revolting, putrid, intensifying, singe, desperate, rapped, trepidation, defeated, clutched, urgency, retorted, investigate, nonsensical, impact, residual, outcome, unfamiliar, ordinary, instructed, intuitively, sensation, accumulation, intimidated, chortled, ludicrous, feverishly, withdrew, residents, astonished, descend, ejected, unfortunate, eyewitnesses, inflicted, debris, dilapidated, stabilized, assessed, precise, acclaimed, renowned, apprised

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

ALL these products 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.

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.

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• 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

Language Arts Anchor Charts & Task Card BUNDLE 3rd 4th 5th Grade: ELA Activities:

Every file in this ELA task cards bundle now includes a digital distance learning option. Please refer to the final 8 pages of each file for links and instructions in Google Slides™ and Google Forms™.

This language arts task card and anchor chart bundle includes cause and effect, context clues, shades of meaning, genres of literature, and homophones.

These language arts task cards sell individually in my store at the following links:

SHADES OF MEANING

CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS

UPPER ELEMENTARY HOMOPHONES TASK CARDS

CAUSE AND EFFECT

GENRES OF LITERATURE

SHADES OF MEANING:

These shades of meaning task cards and anchor charts are Common Core aligned for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This shades of meaning activity includes:

• four instructional pages (anchor charts with explanations of shades of meaning adjectives)
• 36 task cards with three different questions types
• an answer sheet
• an answer key

Shades of meaning can be confusing for students and this product provides criteria and practice for understanding the intensity of different adjectives.

CONTEXT CLUES:

These context clues task cards and activities were created for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. It requires students to use context to make meaning, as well as identify the words or phrases that helped them understand the meaning of an unknown word.

This context clues task cards product includes:

• anchor charts that will help students identify clues in text
• 34 task cards on half sheets
• answer sheet
• answer key

These task cards can be used in stations, small groups, centers, or for early finishers and includes the answer sheets as well as the answer keys.

HOMOPHONES:

This Homophones activity was created for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.
This file includes:

• a 10-page list of upper level homophones (over 260 words with definitions)
• 36 task cards
• an answer sheet
• an answer key

The assumption is that students have been introduced to homophones in the primary grades prior to their introduction to this product. Lower level homophones lists and task cards are available in my store if you need them.

CAUSE AND EFFECT:

These cause and effect activities with anchor charts and task cards are common core aligned for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This product includes:

• 4 instructional pages (an explanation of cause and effect as well as a trick to remember which part is the cause and which part is the effect)
• 36 task cards
• an answer sheet
• an answer key

The instructional pages will clear up cause and effect confusion if students are working on the task cards independently. Use this product in stations, small groups, whole class, centers, or for early finishers.

GENRES OF LITERATURE:

This genres of literature posters and task cards activity now includes a digital distance learning option in Google Slides and Google Forms.

These Genres of Literature Task Cards and Instructional Anchor Charts are Common Core aligned for 3rd-6th Grade and include the following genres of literature:

• biography
• autobiography
• narrative non-fiction
• expository non-fiction
• fairy tales
• fantasy
• folk tales
• science fiction
• historical fiction
• fables, poetry
• tall tales
• realistic fiction

You will find:

• 13 genres of literature anchor charts that can be copied and displayed on the wall for student reference throughout the year (each card includes a description of the the given genre
• 36 task cards (with three different question types
• an answer sheet
• an answer key

NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

As of 5/22/20, 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.

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!

These 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 this product is on Google Slides and 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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Character Traits Graphic Organizers, Posters, & Activities BUNDLE for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade:

This Character Traits Bundle includes the following products: Character Traits Posters, Task Cards, and Printables, Character Traits Awards for Intermediate Grades, and Character Trait of the Week: A Full Year Character Study.

Please view each individual product here:

• CHARACTER TRAITS POSTERS, TASK CARDS, AND PRINTABLES
• CHARACTER TRAITS AWARDS CERTIFICATES FOR INTERMEDIATE GRADES
• CHARACTER TRAIT OF THE WEEK – 40 WEEKS OF STUDY

Character Traits Posters, Task Cards, and Printables:

• Alphabetical Word Posters with OVER 300 character traits (each letter of the alphabet is a half sheet except for w, x, y, and z). You can use these word lists on a bulletin board or for student reference at a station or notebook.
• 36 Task Cards with three distinct question types, the answer sheet, and the answer key.
• Five Character Traits printables for use with any story or writing activity (includes a Web, Character Creation, Character Comparison, Character Trait of the Day, and Character Study).

Character Traits Awards Certificates -

• These certificates are perfect for 3rd grade through 8th grade and include 34 different character traits (a color girl version, a color boy version, a black and white girl version, and a black and white boy version) with a statement related to the character trait on each award certificate.
• This is an editable file (three editable text boxes per certificate).

Character Trait of the Week for One Year:

• This product contains posters, and character traits printables for each week of the year (40 weeks total).
• Each week contains one poster for the featured trait of the week, as well as two printables (designed to be printed back to back, corresponding to that week's character trait) that require students to make connections to their own lives and to the literature they are reading in class.
• Teacher tips and ideas for use are also included at the beginning of the product.
• Please look at the thumbnails and the preview to view the layout of the posters and printables.
• Each week also contains a pertinent quote (or a figurative language statement) related to the character trait. These quotes are designed to spark meaningful conversations and discussions between students.

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 appears at the end of each file.

Looking for Character Traits Quotes for reflection, inspiration, and depth in classroom discussions?

• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR PERSEVERANCE
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR COURAGE
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR COMPASSION
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR GRATITUDE
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR CONFIDENCE
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR TOLERANCE
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR INTEGRITY
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR MOTIVATION
• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR SUCCESS

Get the ENTIRE Character Traits Quotes Bundle at a discount:

• CHARACTER TRAITS QUOTES FOR A YEAR BUNDLE