Engage students with 32 colorful sentence building task cards that reinforce parts of speech skills. Includes Google Slides and TpT Easel activities, challenge cards, answer keys, and student recording sheets. Perfect for literacy centers, test prep, and distance learning. Available in digital format.
$3.19
Your students will love these SUPER 32 sentence building task cards!
Whatโs included?
This is a set of task cards for helping students understand different parts of speech in order to make boring sentences, SUPER! Each sentence has two speech bubbles, each with a prompt to either add, or change some part of the sentence. The bright colors and fun pictures added to the creativity, that will make students love these task cards!
Each of these 32 cards requires students to follow instructions to improve a simple sentence by adding and/or changing words. Students will not only learn to make more interesting and elaborate sentences, but will also be reinforcing parts of speech skills. For younger grades, use the cards just as they are. For fourth grade and above, consider adding Challenge Card 1, which will require students to add a prepositional phrase to each of their answers. Two other challenge cards are also included to extend the activity.
These task cards are perfect for test prep and will work well at literacy centers, stations, for partner work, or with the whole class using a game like Scoot. Student answer sheets are provided as well as answer keys. There are also Challenge Cards that can be used with any other card to extend the activity. In addition, a student handout and three posters are included as reminders for your students.
Print this set out in color. For black and white printing, please use the included black line version. If you are printing in black and white, consider printing on colored paper. Simply print and cut along the guidelines. Laminate and use them again and again. Alternatively, you could print on cardstock. It works well to keep them in a baggie. Another option is to hole-punch a corner of each card and
put them all on a ring.
Distance Learning:
There is also a digital version using TpT’s new digital tool. After purchase, click the white โOpen in Easel” button. This will give you access to a digital overlay where students can type in their sentences. You can edit the digital overlay or use it as is.
Student answer sheets are included as well as sample answer keys for both the cards alone and the cards in conjunction with Challenge Card 1. Please keep in mind that these are suggested answers only. Your studentsโ answers will vary as this is a somewhat open-ended activity.
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Common Core Standards addressed in this set:
Grade 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1e Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
Grade 3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1a Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1i Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Grade 4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1d Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1e Form and use prepositional phrases.
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A more challenging set of Sentences Task Cards is availablehere.
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This resource was created by Rachel Lynette for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded. If you want to share this resource with colleagues, please purchase additional licenses. Thank you for respecting these terms of use. ๐
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SKU: 516518
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grace Y. –
Started using these a few a day, and the students LOVE them! They always look forward to doing them, quick and easy, and it helping them so much! Thank you!
Phoebe Coffey –
This is such a simple but really engaging literacy activity. We use it a few cards each day as a quick warm up. It’s great to have students share their improved sentences and instantly see how making simple changes enhances the sentences hugely. Thanks!
Kaitlyn Honeycutt –
Great resource for grammar review or remediation! My students in my special education resource class enjoyed using this for test review.
Maxine W. –
I have started working with the students on their writing proper sentences. I saw this package and took a chance that it would work with what I had in mind. It does a very nice job.
Allison Gingerich –
My students loved this resource to help them write better sentences.
lacie T. –
This was really good practice for students to work on sentence building and adding details!
Carolyn J. –
Can’t wait to use these cards! They give the kids some nice practice and in the case of my EFLs, it’s a good challenge and shows me they mastered the material. The only glitch I have is the lines to cut through. Those almost invisible dotted lines are really hard to see, especially after lamination. I would have liked to have had them thicker and clearer to make cutting easier. Thank you!
Mai B. –
My students loved, loved, loveddd this activity. I used with printed task cards in groups of 3. We didnโรรดt have enough time to finish them, but they insisted to continue it the next day.
Let There Be Lessons –
I’ve gotten task cards for ELA and I’m never really satisfied with them. But these were very effective and I’ll use them for years to come! Great resource, thank you very much!
Samantha A. –
I love all of your task cards. These cards are a great way to practice grammar.