Task Cards for Teachers
Explore hundreds of task cards created by teachers for your primary classroom! This collection of curriculum-aligned teaching resources touches on every subject from English to maths, science to social studies and beyond.
This collection of printable task cards can help stimulate curiosity and motivate your students to participate actively in their learning!
Not familiar with task cards, or just looking for fresh ways to use them in the classroom? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Are Task Cards?
A task card is a small card or piece of paper that presents students with a specific learning task or activity to complete.
Perfect for adding to your learning stations or rotations, the cards typically contain a question, problem or activity that requires them to apply their knowledge and skills to solve or respond. The idea is to promote independent learning and allow kids to work at their own pace.
They're also invaluable for differentiating instruction as you can provide different levels of challenge or content to meet individual student needs. You'll notice many of the Teach Starter sets of task cards have varying difficulty levels.
Best Ways to Store Task Cards
We know task cards are invaluable tools for teachers — it's why our teacher team invests time in creating cards that will get your students engaged in learning! But we also know you end up with a LOT of task cards as the school year goes on. So how do you store them all?
Here are some tips from our teacher team to keep track of all those task cards!
- Punch a hole in each pack of task cards, and use binder rings. This makes it easy for students to flip through the cards in your centers without losing any along the way. The one drawback to this solution is that the cards can get frayed quickly, so you might want to laminate the cardstock before adding them to the ring.
- Use photo storage boxes. Most task cards are sized similarly to small photos, making photo storage boxes perfectly sized for your cards! Don't forget to label each box with the type of task card so you can find them easily next school year when it's time for this particular unit!
- Use note card holders. Did you print your task cards to fit on note or index cards? There are storage holders designed just for those items that will double as simple task card storage!
- Plastic zipper bags. Store individual sets of task cards in plastic zipper bags or sandwich bags, and use a permanent marker to label each bag with what the card is all about or use different coloured bags so that kids know exactly which bag takes which card set. You could even bring the binder ring into the mix by punching a hole in each bag, then looping the bags on the binder ring.
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Positive Self-Talk Writing Prompts (Teaching Slides)
Use this set of 15 positive self-talk scenarios as writing prompts to expand your students ability to be kind to themselves!
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Would You Rather? - End of Year Summer Fun Game
Kick off your summer holidays with a fun “Would You Rather?” Brain Break activity.
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Conjunctive Adverbs Task Cards
Assess your students’ understanding of conjunctive adverbs with these fun adverbs task cards!
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Comparative and Superlative Adverb Task Cards
Introduce these comparative and superlative adverbs task cards to your class to grow their understanding of these types of adverbs!
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Halloween Contractions Activity - SCOOT! Card Game
Identify contractions and the words they replace with a printable Halloween Contractions Activity for Year 2.
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Symmetry Picture Task Cards
Use these fun and colourful symmetry picture task cards to help students identify lines of symmetry in both everyday objects and 2D shapes.
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Order of Seasons Task Cards
Use these task cards to allow students to practise ordering images of seasonal changes across the year.
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Growth Mindset Discussion Cards
Explore growth mindset with your students with this set of discussion cards.
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Defining Homophones Task Cards
Print this set of 24 homophones task cards for your class literacy rotations.
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Coffee Shop Calculations – Estimation With Decimals Task Cards
Download this set of 24 task cards to help your students practise estimating decimal sums and differences with benchmark numbers.
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Estimating Quotients Task Cards
Give your students the opportunity to use rounding and compatible numbers to answer estimation questions with this set of 24 task cards.
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Rounding Decimals With Visual Models – Task Cards
Use these task cards to round decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth and match each value with a corresponding decimal model.
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Orb Robot - Task Cards
Practice coding concepts with orb robot task cards for students, suitable for middle and upper years.
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Is It Safe or Unsafe? Task Cards
Explore safe and unsafe situations with this set of task cards.
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What Am I? Water Cycle Task Cards
Test knowledge about the water cycle with these fun and engaging task cards.
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Area of a Parallelogram – Task Cards
Practise calculating the area of a parallelogram with this set of 24 task cards designed for year 7 students.
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Mapping Tricky Words - Task Cards
Practise identifying the tricky parts in high-frequency words with these differentiated sets of tricky word mapping task cards.
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Pop Phonemes - Segmenting Short Vowel Words
Review phoneme segmentation by popping each phoneme using these task cards.
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Writing About Fractions- Task Cards
Review fraction concepts and practice mathematical constructed response writing with a set of writing about fractions task cards.
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Dictionary Skills Task Cards - Set 1
Practise dictionary skills with this set of task cards.
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Dictionary Mystery Scoot Game
Practise dictionary skills with your students with this active game.
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Bug Shapes - Playdough Mats
Build fine motor skills and build shape recognition skills with a set of fun minibeast playdough mats.
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Long or Short OO? - SCOOT! Task Cards
Identify the long and short 'oo' sound in one- and two-syllable words with this active classroom game that will get your students moving!
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OI Graphemes - SCOOT! Task Cards
Explore words containing graphemes that make the diphthong ‘oi’ with this active classroom game that will get your students moving!
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Short OO Graphemes - SCOOT! Task Cards
Explore words containing graphemes that make the ‘short oo’ sound with this active classroom game that will get your students moving!
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Combining Words Task Cards - Compounds
Give your students some practise putting words together to form compound words with a pack of printable Compound Word Task Cards.
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Balanced and Unbalanced Forces Task Cards
Use these force and motion task cards as a student review activity in your Year 7 science lessons.
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Perseverance or Not? Scenario Cards
Get students to explore real-life examples of perseverance with this set of 16 scenario cards perfect for developing students' social-emotional skills.
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Estimation With Multiplication (Whole Numbers) Task Cards
Supercharge your students’ maths skills! Download our set of fun task cards to practise estimating products of whole numbers.
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Empathy Discussion Cards
Promote kindness and understanding in your classroom! Download our set of empathy discussion cards to engage your students in meaningful conversations.
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Autumn Factor Pairs Task Cards
Practise finding factor pairs with this autumn maths activity.
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Even and Odd Numbers Task Cards - Word Problems
Identify odd and even numbers within word problems with a set of task cards.