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Literary Element Task Cards - Primary Grades
PDF, Google Slides | 6 pages|Grades: 1 - 3A set of 12 task cards for primary students to use after reading a picture book.
Use these classroom task cards to help students recognize and analyze literary elements found in a literary text.
The set contains 12 cards, in five color-coded categories, exploring:
- setting
- character
- plot
- theme
- illustrations.
You may like to print the cards on cardstock and store them on a binder ring for your students to choose from. These activities can be completed in a reading center after a read aloud or listening to a book on tape, or as a whole class activity.
Use the drop-down menu to choose between the color or black and white PDF version or the google slide version.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
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We have changed some of the questions to better align with the Common Core and TEKS curriculum. We have also added a Google slide version for this resource.
Change by Natalie Aug 29th, 2020
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