Task Cards, Level 1 (green)
1.Who are the characters in the story?
list, draw, tell / 2.
Describe the main character.
draw and label, journal
3.
How does the main character behave?
journal / 4.
Interview your character.
Popsicle-stick character
5.
Explain the problem of the story.
character’s diary page / 6.
Recall the setting (where and when) of the story in detail.
draw, tell
7.
Retell the story.
Story map / 8.
Draw your favorite part of the story.
drawing
9.
Act out the story with a friend.
skit / 10.
How is the problem in the story solved?
draw, tell
11.
Find examples of fact and opinion in the story.
list / 12.
Did this story remind you of another story?
tell
13.
What happened first, second, next, then, and finally?
list / 14.
Tell one thing that happened. What was the cause?
list, tell
15.
Summarize the story in 3-5 sentences. / 16.
17. / 18.
19. / 20.
21. / 22.
Task Cards, Level 2 (yellow)
1.Use if-then thinking (cause-effect thinking) about something that happened in the story.
Cause-effect graphic organizer / 2.
Draw conclusions about a character.
3.
Compare and contrast 2 characters in the story.
Compare-contrast graphic organizer / 4.
In what ways might you change the story?
Popsicle-stick character
5.
Analyze the problem in the story from a character’s point of view.
character’s diary page / 6.
Imagine you are the main character’s friend. How would the story change?
choice
7.
Invent a tool or machine for your main character. Tell why the character likes it.
Drawing, diagram / 8.
Decide which is your favorite book by comparing this story to 2 others.
9.
Judge whether you would be friends with the main character and tell why or why not.
choice / 10.
Which is the most important character in the story?
11.
Prioritize the events in the story. / 12.
If you could give the main character something, what would it be?
drawing
13.
Based on the text, what do you think would happen next?
list / 14.
Give an example of a metaphor, simile, or personification.
list, tell
15.
How does the main character feel about the situation?
list, tell / 16.
17. / 18.
19. / 20.
21. / 22.
Task Card, Level 3 (pink or red)
1.Who changes in the story and how do they change?
Before-and-After pictures / 2.
What changes take place in the story in regard to mood, relationships, feeling, and so on.
journal
3.
Predict changes in the character that occur after the story ends
Draw and label / 4.
What causes change to happen in the story?
journal
5.
Make a T chart and list good and bad changes from the story
T chart / 6.
Compare changes in your life to the changes in the main character’s life.
Compare-contrast graphic organizer
7.
Find examples of “Change can be anywhere, any time.”
choice / 8.
Why is change necessary for growth?
journal
9.
Justify: “Change is inevitable.”
journal / 10.
In what ways does change lead to conflict in the story?
Discussion, journal
11.
How does change lead to change in the story?
list / 12.
People sometimes don’t like change. Do you like how the character changed in the story?
tell
13.
Name one fact and one opinion and how they are different. / 14.
Compare and contrast what you are reading to something you have read before
15.
Using context clues from your past, what is something you can infer from the story? Cite evidence. / 16.
What is the author’s purpose for what you are reading? Cite evidence.
17.
What is a conclusion you are able to draw from what you just read. Cite evidence. / 18.
What would you do if ….
19.
How would you feel if … / 20.
Which is better …
21.
Do you think … / 22.