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I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes. I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science I have a PA Professional Certi

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I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes. I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science I have a PA Professional Certi
Subject Verb Agreement Task Cards
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Subject Verb Agreement Task Cards

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Subject Verb Agreement: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while gaining fluency with subject-verb agreement. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct verb or noun and identify each as singular or plural. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Figurative Language Task Cards
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Figurative Language Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language. This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to identify the type of figurative language that was used. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included. Figurative Language Included: Alliteration Hyperbole Idiom Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Pun Simile
Compound Words Task Cards
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Compound Words Task Cards

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Compound Words: These compound words task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about compound words. This activity has students viewing two pictures of different objects and then figuring out the compound word. This product includes the following 16 compound words: Butterfly Cupcake Fireman Football Pancake Rainbow Skateboard Sunflower Birdhouse Fingernail Horseshoe Jellyfish Lighthouse Mailbox Spaceship Toothbrush
Making Predictions Task Cards
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Making Predictions Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with making inferences. A recording sheet and answer key is included. This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make a prediction about what is most likely to happen next. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage.
Restating the Question Task Cards
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Restating the Question Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while answering a question using a complete sentence. This activity has students reading 26 questions to each other and then asked to restate the question to answer in a complete sentence. A recording sheet and answer key with sample answers is included.
Creative and Critical Thinking Task Cards
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Creative and Critical Thinking Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their creative and critical thinking skills. There are 26 creative and critical thinking questions that will engage your students in a fun way. This product is great for fast finishers.
Reading Comprehension Task Cards
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while increasing their reading comprehension and writing skills. This activity engages students by posing questions about any piece of literature they have just read. These Reading Comprehension task cards utilizes questions within Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Knowledge Questions 2. Comprehension Questions 3. Application Questions 4. Analysis Questions 5. Synthesis Questions 6. Evaluation Questions
Inference Task Cards
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Inference Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with inference. This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided.
Possessive Pronouns Task Cards
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Possessive Pronouns Task Cards

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Possessive Pronouns: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning how to identify possessive pronouns. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct possessive pronoun. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. There are three types of problems: 1. Students change the sentence to add the correct possessive pronoun. 2. Students identifying the possessive pronoun from a sentence 3. Students fill in the blank with the correct possessive pronoun
Personification Task Cards
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Personification Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about different examples of personification. This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is. The following examples of personification are included: The rude alarm clock woke me up My feet are tired The clock shouted the time The tree limbs reached out and grabbed me The sun rays reached out and welcomed me The trees were dressed in snow The wind whistled a tune My heart raced My laptop died The cupcake called my name The leaves danced in the wind The flower begged for water The sun peeked through The wave attacked/swallowed the boat Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Task Cards
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Task Cards

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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while identifying comparative and superlative adjectives. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct adjective in its comparative or superlative form. An answer sheet and an answer key are included.
Theme Task Cards
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Theme Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while finding the theme of a story. A recording sheet and an answer key is provided. This activity has students reading 16 passages to each other and then asked to identify the theme out of two possible choices. There is also a version where students may come up with their own judgement as to what the theme is.
Subject and Predicate Task Cards (Complete and Compound)
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Subject and Predicate Task Cards (Complete and Compound)

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Subject and Predicate: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice identifying subjects and verbs within sentences. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify either the complete subject or predicate or the subject and verbs to identify the sentence as a compound subject or predicate. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Context Clues Task Cards
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Context Clues Task Cards

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Context Clues: These context clues task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their comprehension skills and vocabulary. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct definition for the underlined word in the sentence. An answer sheet and an answer key are included.
Literary Devices Task Cards
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Literary Devices Task Cards

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These literary devices task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of literary devices.A recording sheet with an answer key is provided. This activity has two versions: 1. Students use the definition to identify the type of literary device. 2. Students give examples of each type of literary device Literary Devices Included: Allusion Analogy Characterization Conflict Dramatic Irony Euphemism Flashback Foreshadowing Hyperbole Metaphor Oxymoron Paradox Personification Sarcasm/ Verbal Irony Simile Situational Irony Understatement
Summarizing Task Cards
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Summarizing Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their summarization skills. This activity has students reading 16 informational text passages to each other and then asked to summarize the passage in 13 words or less. Students may record their summaries on the provided answer sheet. An answer key with suggested example answers is also included.
Greek and Latin Roots Task Cards
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Greek and Latin Roots Task Cards

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Greek and Latin Roots Task Cards: These Greek and Latin roots task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with Greek and Latin roots. These Task Cards contain root words in the areas of Science, English language arts, Math, as well as commonly used roots.
Prefixes Task Cards
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Prefixes Task Cards

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Prefixes: These prefixes task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with prefixes. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to choose the correct prefix for a given word in the sentence. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Character Traits Task Cards
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Character Traits Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills with inferring character traits. This activity has students reading 20 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference about the trait of the character in the passage. Students are given multiple choice options, as well as a version without multiple choice.
Fact and Opinion Task Cards
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards

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These fact or opinion task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the difference between fact and opinion. This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to either identify the statement as either fact or opinion or to identify the opinion when given two options. Explanations are also given for the more tricky statements. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.