Task Cards for Teachers
Explore hundreds of task cards created by teachers for your elementary classroom! This collection of curriculum-aligned teaching resources touches on every subject from ELA to math, 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 centers, 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 colored bags (there are often fun colors in the stores around the different holidays) so that kids know exactly which bag takes which card set. You could even bring the binder ring into the mix here by punching a hole in each bag, then looping the bags on the binder ring.
- Use binder clips. Teach Starter Senior Resource Producer (and Georgia teacher) Randi Smith uses binder clips to organize her task cards, writing the subject of the cards on each clip.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Task Cards - (Numbers 1-9)
Use a range of addition and subtraction strategies to solve twenty single-digit word problems.
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Let's Compare! Task Cards
Practice comparing 2-digit numbers with this set of 20 task cards.
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Fiction and Nonfiction Visual Literacy Cards
Help students sharpen their ability to interpret, analyse, and think critically about images in texts with this engaging set of visual literacy cards.
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Make a Sentence Activity Task Cards
Boost early writing skills with this engaging Make a Sentence Activity designed to help students understand sentence structure through fun, hands-on learning.
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Online Text Features Task Cards
Teach online text features with ease using these multiple-choice task cards designed to strengthen students' digital reading and navigation skills.
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Magnetic Maze Science Center Activity Cards
Engage your students with a Magnetic Maze and help them discover the power of magnetic fields in the real world!
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Author's Purpose Task Cards
Help your students master the skill of identifying the author’s purpose with this set of engaging Author’s Purpose task cards.
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Self-Monitoring Reading Activities
Explore how to monitor reading while reading with this set of Self-Monitoring Reading Activities task cards.
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SCOOT! Context Clues Activity Cards
Play SCOOT!, a Context Clues Activity to practice identifying unknown words in sentences.
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Volume Word Problems – Task Cards
Present these volume word problems task cards to your students to give them practice solving volume problems with real-world context!
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Spelling Practice Activity Cards
Make daily spelling practice more exciting with this set of 24 spelling word practice ideas.
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CVCC Word Work Mat
Practice segmenting and spelling simple words with this set of 24 CVCC picture task cards.
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Measurement Conversion Activities - Metric System Task Cards
Share these measurement conversion activities task cards with your students to help them master metric conversions of length, mass, and capacity.
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Observing Matter Picture Zoom Task Cards
Challenge your students to observe the properties of matter with an engaging Matter Observation Picture Zoom Activity.
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I Spy Alphabet Sounds Mat
Use these ‘I Spy’ Alphabet Sounds Mats to explore the different letter-sound correspondence of the alphabet.
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5th Grade Grammar Review Task Cards
Download these 5th grade grammar review task cards perfect for reading centers.
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Order Numbers From Least to Greatest Task Cards (Numbers 1 - 20)
Order numbers from least to greatest with these task cards for numbers 1 - 20.
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Area And Perimeter Word Problem Task Cards
Use these area and perimeter task cards in your math centers to give your students practice solving real-world word problems.
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Math Brain Teasers – Grade 2 Word Problems
Challenge your second-grade students to solve these brain teasers with a set of 24 math word problems.
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Winter Animal Adaptations - Clip Cards
Discover which behavioral adaptations animals use to survive the winter with a set of Animals in Winter Clip Cards.
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Summarizing Fiction Task Cards
Guide students along their summarizing journey with this set of Fiction texts on task cards for students to summarize.
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Balanced and Unbalanced Forces Task Cards
Use these force and motion task cards as a student review activity in your 6th grade science lessons.
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Multiplication as Repeated Addition Task Cards
Reinforce how repeated addition and multiplication are related with this set of 24 task cards.
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Expanded Form Task Cards
Help your students explore expanding numbers up to 6-digits with this set of task cards.
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Kitchen Safety for Kids- Life Skills Activity Cards
Promote fire and kitchen safety rules with 18 printable Kitchen Safety scenario task cards.
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Emoji Equation Riddles - Determine the Unknown
Build problem-solving and critical thinking skills with printable Emoji Math Riddle task cards.
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Plant Adaptations - Research Task Cards
Research behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations with printable plant adaptation task cards.
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Main Idea Task Cards
Practice finding the main idea and supporting detail in a passage with these task cards.
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Number Talks - Making Ten Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 20 task cards.
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Forms of Energy – Science Experiments for Kids
Investigate mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy with this set of science activities for kids.
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Phoneme Segmentation Task Cards
Segment beginning, middle vowel, and final phonemes with this set of 20 CVC word task cards.
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Mixtures and Solutions – Station Cards
Determine if a combination of ingredients makes a mixture or solution during your science centers with this set of station cards.