Reading Response Task Cards for Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

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Description

These Reading Response Task Cards feature a unique and engaging “Must Do, Choose Two” system to ensure your students cover important fiction and non-fiction reading skills while also developing independence. Display two activities that students must complete, and then have students choose two task cards to answer.
 
The task cards include both fiction and non-fiction/informational reading response activities. The open nature of this activity means that it can be used again and again.
 
Our Reading Response Task Cards resource includes:
  • 37 fiction task cards
  • 26 non-fiction informational text task cards
  • 1 “Must Do, Choose Two!” display heading

 

The following fiction reading skills are covered:
  • Make Connections
  • Determine Importance
  • Character Analysis
  • Ask Questions
  • Visualise
  • Inference
  • Theme
  • Plot
  • Sequence
  • Summarise
  • Point of View
  • Cause and Effect
  • Evaluate
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Creative Thinking
  • Vocabulary
  • Genre

 

The following non-fiction reading skills are covered:
  • Author’s Purpose
  • Text Features
  • Vocabulary
  • Main Idea
  • Summarise
  • Ask Questions
  • Make Connections
  • Organisation of Ideas
  • Prior Knowledge
  • Find Specific Details
  • Research Skills
  • Fact or Opinion

 

Suggested Use:
  • Model how to use this resource. Show your expectations for how to set out their answers in their exercise book (or on a digital device).
  • Print and laminate the Must Do, Choose two task cards and the Must Do, Choose Two heading.
  • Display your task cards in a highly visible part of the classroom, showing two Must do task cards and a range of “can do” options.