Task Cards for Reading Comprehension with Older Students

Are you looking for a way that students can practice reading comprehension skills? These differentiated task cards allow your students to read a passage and answer questions based on their own reading level. They cover 36 different reading comprehension skills. These task cards are available in both digital and print and the answer keys are provided so students can check their own work. Simply print the task cards or assign them digitally and you are ready to go.

Ways to use the reading comprehension task cards

• As online digital task card activities
• In small groups when focusing on a specific skill.
• To reinforce skills during literacy centers.
• In partner work.
• As a game. Tape task cards around the room for kids to move around while practicing reading. Students will ‘work the room.’
• For tutors to use in small groups.
• As a review for standardized tests.
• For a quick 5-minute time filler.
• Perfect to leave for a substitute teacher.
• Connect the task cards to any board game. If they answer the task card correctly, they move a space in the game.
• Independent practice.
• Hide them in the room as a scavenger hunt.

There are a couple of options to choose from. Save the most money by purchasing The Reading Comprehension Task Card bundle, which includes all 36 reading comprehension skills listed below. The bundle has a total of 432 task cards on 3 different levels for a total of 1296 task cards!!! If you are needing a specific skill, they are also available for purchase individually. Each reading comprehension skill has 12 task cards each for basic, average and advanced levels. By clicking on each comprehension skill below, you will be taken to the individual link for purchase.

Reading comprehension skills taught

• Analyzing
• Author's Purpose
• Background Knowledge
• Cause and Effect
• Character Traits
• Comparing
• Dialogue
• Drawing Conclusions
• Fact and Opinion
• Finding Evidence
• Graphics/Illustrations
• Inferring
• Judging
• Main Idea and Details
• Making Connections
• Metacognition
• Opinions
• Perspective
• Predicting
• Problem and Solution
• Questioning
• Reader's Purpose
• Reflecting
• Sequencing
• Setting
• Speculating
• Story Structure
• Summarizing
• Synthesizing
• Tension
• Text Features
• Text Importance
• Theme
• Visualizing
• Vocabulary
• Word Strategies

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