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Character Traits Task Cards to Build Vocabulary - Requires Citing Evidence

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These character traits task cards are a fun way for students to practice identifying character traits and citing evidence. Each task card contains a short reading passage. Students read the task card and then use the clues to make an inference

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.3

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Cause and Effect Task Cards - Use for Cause and Effect Scoot

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use this low prep resource to help your students practice cause and effect within shorter texts in a fun way. Students will read This product contains 24 cause and effect task cards. Students must read a short paragraph, and then determine the

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Test Preparation

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards, Centers

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Making Inferences Task Card & Activities Bundle - Short Stories for Inferencing

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource bundles 4 of my inferencing task resources, giving you a total of 64 task cards and 10 cut and paste activities to help your students practice their inferencing skills. The task cards and activities each contain short fiction

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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$5.25

518

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Making Inferences Task Cards - Inferring Feelings and Emotions

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use this low prep activity to help your students improve their inferencing skills while also building compassion and empathy for others. These 20 task cards contain short fiction texts with clues about how a character is feeling. Students must use

Subjects:

Reading, Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

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596

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Text Features Task Cards - Text Features in Nonfiction - Can Use for SCOOT

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These 24 text features task cards are designed to encourage students not just to identify text features found in informational text, but to explain the purpose of the text features and think about how they help readers understand text better. Each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.3.5

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561

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Point of View Task Cards - Distinguish Point of View from Character's / Author's

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These 24 point of view task cards are designed to help students thinking about what a character or an author's point of view is, and whether they agree or disagree with that point of view. Each task cards contains a short reading passage. There

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.6, RI.3.6

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Main Idea and Supporting Details Task Cards - Passages, Short Stories

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Use these task cards for a low prep lesson that help students practice main idea in a new and engaging way. These task cards are designed to get students thinking about how key details support the main idea. Students have to figure out what detail

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.2, RI.3.2

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353

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Reading Skills Task Card Bundle - Character Traits, Text Features, and More

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep reading task card bundle includes all of my literacy task card resources, for a total of 268 task cards. These are great to have on hand and reuse year, after year! Use the task cards as a reading center, for independent practice, as

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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261

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Valentine's Day Math - Fraction Task Cards for a Math Center or SCOOT

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource is a great way to help your students review fraction skills while also celebrating Valentine's Day! This resource contains 20 task cards with fun, Valentine's Day themed fraction questions that make a fun math center or whole

Subjects:

Fractions, Valentine's Day, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

598

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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Task Cards - Nonfiction Thanksgiving Text

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep Thanksgiving activity is a great way to practice different reading comprehension skills while celebrating before Thanksgiving break. For each task card, students read a nonfiction, Thanksgiving themed paragraph, and then answer a

Subjects:

Reading, Thanksgiving, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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329

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Inferencing Task Cards - Making Inferences About Setting

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Help students practice making inferences while also review setting with these low prep 20 task cards. Students read short passages that gives clues about the setting. To complete the task cards, students must use the clues to make inferences, and

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

380

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Compare & Contrast Task Cards in Informational / Nonfiction Text - Use for Scoot

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

Help students compare and contrast using these 24 informational text task cards. Students practice comparing and contrasting key details within nonfiction text, t-charts, tables, timelines, graphs, and pictures. These informational text task cards

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

$2.00

225

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Multiplication Task Cards- Arrays, Repeated Addition, Fact Families, Groupings

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This resource has 24 multiplication task cards that allow students to show their knowledge of how to represent multiplication facts in different ways (arrays and repeated addition, for example). In order for students to be successful with these

Subjects:

Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

CCSS:

3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.3

$2.00

342

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Halloween Fractions Activity / Review - Fun Task Cards for Halloween Scoot

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep Halloween resource contains 20 task cards to help your students review fractions while also getting into the Halloween Spirit. This makes a fun math center or whole class math activity for those days around Halloween when students are

Subjects:

Math, Fractions, Halloween

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

$2.00

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Context Clues Task Cards - A Context Clue Activity (Use for Scoot)

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep activity is a fun way to help your students practice context clues. These 24 task cards help you approach teaching context clues in a different way. Each task card has a paragraph with one word that does not make sense with the

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.3.4, RL.4.4

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332

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32 Probability Task Cards - Certain, Possible, Impossible, Likely, Unlikely

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

These 32 probability task cards are for helping students practice considering what probability events are certain, possible, impossible, unlikely, and likely. Students will read a short scenario, usually involving rolling a number die, spinning

Subjects:

Math, Statistics, Word Problems

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

$2.00

200

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Classifying Quadrilateral Task Cards / Scoot - Quadrilateral Review

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource includes 32 task cards with questions about the following quadrilaterals: squares, rectangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and rhombuses. Students are asked to draw quadrilaterals, identify quadrilaterals with certain

Subjects:

Math, Geometry, Math Test Prep

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

3.G.A.1

$2.00

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Asking and Answering Questions in Fiction Text Task Cards - RL 2.1, RL 3.1

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource will help your students learn how to ask thoughtful questions about a fiction text / story they have read. The more students practice asking their own questions about a text, the easier it will be for them to answer those

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.2.1, RL.3.1

$2.00

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Asking and Answering Questions Task Cards - Nonfiction Texts - RI 2.1, RI 3.1

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource will help your students learn how to ask meaningful questions about a nonfiction text / informational text they have read. The more students practice asking their own questions about a text, the easier it will be for them to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.3.1

$2.00

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Fractions on a Number Line Task Cards - Use for Fraction Scoot - 3.NF.A.2

By Kalena Baker - Teaching Made Practical

This low prep resource includes 32 task cards and a differentiated answer sheet to help your students to practice fractions on a number line and build a better understanding. These task cards are part of my Fractions on a Number Line Resource.

Subjects:

Math, Fractions, Math Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

3.NF.A.2, 3.NF.A.2a, 3.NF.A.2b

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (5.52 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for 6 years. Most of this time was spent in 3rd grade, but I have also worked with Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 4th grade.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Many of my products are geared toward struggling students who need additional scaffolding in order to be successful. I love building confidence and ability in students who don't have it!

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, and am currently working on my Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on ELL learners.

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Environment, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Canadian History, Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Statistics, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Library Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Phonics, Classroom Community