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LANGUAGE ARTS JOB CARDS
ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES |
1, 2 ,3 , 4 , |
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING |
5 , 6 , 7, 8 , |
EASY BOOK REPORT OR STORY REPORT |
81 , |
EVALUATING CHARACTER TRAITS |
10 , 11 , 12 |
13 , 14 , 15, 16, 17, 18 |
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FIGURATIVE SPEECH |
20, |
FINDING THE MAIN IDEA |
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IDENTIFYING THE SETTING OF STORY |
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61 , |
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INTERPRETATION THROUGH ORAL READING |
29, 33, 35 |
INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS, MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS |
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MAKING GENERALIZATIONS |
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50 , |
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MAKING JUDGMENTS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS |
37 , 49 , 56 , 69 , |
NOTING DETAILS |
70 , |
PHRASE AND SENTENCE MEANING |
57 , 71 , 72 , |
RECOGNIZING PLOT STRUCTURE |
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REFERENCE SKILLS |
74 , 75 |
RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE |
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RELATING PICTURES TO THE TEXT |
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51 , |
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SENSORY IMAGERY |
9, |
STRENGTHENING MEMORY OF MATERIAL READ |
65 , 66 , 83 , |
SUMMARIZING AND ORGANIZING IDEAS |
84 ,85 , |
87 , 88 , |
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WORD MEANINGS |
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DICTIONARY SKILLS |
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ALPHABETIZING |
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SCIENCE |
92 , 93 ,94 , |
SPELLING |
95 , 96 , |
WORD ATTACK SKILLS |
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PHONICS |
99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 |
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS |
90 , 91 , |
JOB CARD NO. 1
COMPREHENSION: ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES
1. The teacher will read orally the first half of an adventure story, then stop.
2. Pretend that you are the author. Finish the story as you think the author would finish it.
3. Read the rest
of the story to see how well you were able to guess what the author would write.
COMPREHENSION: ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES
1. Read about half of a mystery story or an adventure story, then close your book.
2. Draw three pictures to show what you think will happen in the remainder of the story.
3. Finish reading the story. Which of your pictures matched events in the story.
COMPREHENSION: ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES
1. BEFORE you read the story, do these things:
2. Now, before you finish reading the story, tell what you think will happen in the story. Put your ideas into good sentences.
3. Finish reading the story.
4. How many of your ideas were correct?
COMPREHENSION: ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES
1. Read the introductory paragraphs of a new story.
2. Before you finish reading the story, tell who you think the main character is.
3. Tell what kind of person you think this character is.
4. Tell what you think she will do in the story.
5. Finish reading the story.
6. Draw a line through each of your statements which was incorrect.
COMPREHENSION: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
1. Read two stories from the same unit in a reader.
2. Tell which of the two stories you like best. Explain why.
3. In what way(s) were the stories alike?
4. In what way(s) were they different?
5. What kind of stories were these: make-believe? true-to-life?
COMPREHENSION: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
1. Read two stories which deal with the same subject.
2. In what ways were these stories alike?
3. Which story did you like best?
COMPREHENSION: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
1. Read a story about some famous person.
2. In what way was this person different from most famous people whom you have read about?
3. Does this famous person remind you of any other famous person? Whom?
4. In what way(s) were they alike?
5. In what way(s) were they different?
COMPREHENSION: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING 1. Where did this story take place? Would you have to make any change in your daily life to live in a setting such as this? If so, list the changes.
Choose one character from the story. Compare this character with some person you know quite well. Tell the ways in which they are alike, then tell the ways in which they are different.
COMPREHENSION: SENSORY IMAGERY
1. Authors often choose words which will help the reader to "see" or "hear" what is happening in the story. Sometimes they use words which help the reader to "smell" or "feel" something in the story.
Make a list of words in this story which helped you see or hear or smell or feel something in the story.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING CHARACTER TRAITS
1. Write a few sentences about each of the characters in the story.
2. Use specific words from the story to describe the kind of individual each character is.
3. Underline the words you have taken from the story to make this character description.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING CHARACTER TRAITS
1. Think about two characters in the story. Write sentences telling what kind of individual each of these characters is.
2. Tell whether these characters would make good neighbours. Give good reasons for your answers.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING CHARACTER TRAITS
1. Choose an interesting character in your story and write a character description of him or her.
2. Make an illustration of your character. Choose your own way to do it.
You make a model out of clay.
You make a paper and cloth picture.
You may paint her or him at the easel.
You may put him or her on the flannel board.
You may design the character with fingerpaint. You may paint a picture.
You may draw him or her with pencil or crayons.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Read the Letters to the Editor in your newspaper.
2. Find one which you think contains a good idea. Tell why you think it is a good idea.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Find five sentences in a story or article which give true facts.
2. Find five sentences that you think show the opinion of the author and may or may not be true facts.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Read a biography or informational article or story.
2. Look for more about the subject in other books.
3. Can you find anything to add to what the author has said on this subject. If so, what is it?
4. Would you change anything the author has written? Explain.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Find an article or story which is written for the purpose of persuading someone to believe something or do something.
2. How can you tell what purpose the author has in mind?
3. Does the author use good arguments to support these ideas?
4. Do you agree with the author?
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Read a story or article that deals with a subject which is familiar to you.
2. List three statements which you know to be true.
3. List any new information or ideas which you gained from reading this article. Try to find out from other sources whether these statements are true.
COMPREHENSION: EVALUATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
1. Find a story or article that tells about a place that is familiar to you.
2. Give the name of the story and the name of the place.
3. Can you find any statements about this place which you think are incorrect? Explain.
COMPREHENSION: FIGURATIVE SPEECH
1. Animal names are sometimes used to tell us about a person such as:
"She is as smart as a fox."
Can you think of some sayings that use the names of animals to tell us about people? See if you can think of two or three or four and write them down.
2. Read a story to find some of these sayings.
COMPREHENSION: FIGURATIVE SPEECH
1. Sometimes authors use special language to help you understand what is happening. Perhaps you have heard or read the expression, "It is raining cats and dogs!"
Try to find other
expressions of this kind. Keep a list of them. When you have found
three, turn them in to your teacher.
COMPREHENSION: FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
1. Read the story, then write four sentences which tell:
COMPREHENSION: FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
1. Pretend that you are going to change a certain story into a play. Give the title of the story.
2. List the characters you will need for the play. 3. Tell what scenes you will need. 4. Which scene will be most important? Why?
COMPREHENSION: FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
1. Read a new story.
2. Write sentences which tell the most important things which happened in the story.
3. Arrange your sentences in the order that the events occurred. 4. Which of these events was the most important?
COMPREHENSION: FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
Read a story and fill in the following outline for each character.
1. Name of character
2. Her or his problem
3. His or her solution to the problem
COMPREHENSION: FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
Read a story
1. Draw a series of pictures to show the main things that happened in the story.
- What happened in the beginning? Show this in a picture.
- What happened next? Show this in a picture.
- How does the story end ? Show this in a picture.
COMPREHENSION: IDENTIFYING THE SETTING OF THE STORY
1. List as many words and phrases as you can find in the story which tell where the story took place.
2. Write a paragraph describing the setting of the story in your own words.
COMPREHENSION: IDENTIFYING THE SETTING OF THE STORY
1. Make a map to show where the characters went in this story.
2. Put labels on the map to show what happened in each place.
COMPREHENSION: IDENTIFYING THE TIME OF THE STORY
1. Make a time sheet to fit this story. Start with the time at the beginning of the story. Tell the important things that happened then.
Tell the next time that something important happened. Tell what happened then. Go on until you finish all the main events of the story.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETATION THROUGH ORAL READING
1. Practice reading a poem aloud. Be sure to observe all punctuation marks.
2. When you have learned to read it well, record your poem on tape.
3. Listen to the tape recording. What improvements can you make?
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING THE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Sometimes authors tell about the feelings of their story characters. Sometimes you can tell how the story character feels by the way they act in the story.Was someone in this story very happy, or excited, or sad, or gay, or worried, or puzzled, or disappointed, or pleased? If so, tell which character had this strong feeling and tell what kind of feeling it was.
2. Now tell what
caused the character to have
that strong feeling.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING THE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Choose one of the characters in the story.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING THE MOTIVES OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Most story characters do things for a reason. Pick out some important thing which one of the story characters did. Tell what it was and what you think the reason was for doing it.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETATION THROUGH ORAL READING
1. Reread a page in the story. Choose words you think would have special emphasis.
2. Practice reading this page orally, emphasizing the words you have chosen.
3. Read the page aloud to the class.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS, MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Tell what kind of person the main character was.
2. Copy several sentences from the story to prove your statements.
3. What can you find in the story pictures to help prove your statements?
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETATION THROU ORAL READING AND STORY TELLING Choose a story with interesting conversation. Invite classmates to join with you in taking the speaking parts. Practice with your classmates until you think you are ready to read the conversational parts of the story as if you were really talking.
COMPREHENSION: MAKING GENERALIZATIONS
Read some stories about famous people.
1. What was there about each man or woman you read about that helped to make him or her famous?
2. Can you name one characteristic which all of these individuals had in common?
3. Do they think that characteristic has anything to do with their success?
4. What are some characteristics which you think would help to make a person famous or successful?
5. Do you think most famous people make the world a better place in which to live? Explain your answer.
COMPREHENSION: MAKING JUDGMENTS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
1. Which character in the story did you like best? Why?
2. Was the main character true-to-life or make-believe?
3. Write a paragraph giving good reasons for your answer.
COMPREHENSION: RECOGNIZING PLOT STRUCTURE
Answer the following questions:
1. What was the story about?
2. Where did the story take place?
3. When did the story take place?
4. Who were the chief characters?
5. What part of the story did you like best? Why?
6. Draw a cartoon strip showing the main parts of the story. Be sure to show what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
COMPREHENSION: RECOGNIZING SEQUENCE IN A STORY
Read a story, then:
1. Briefly outline the major events as they happened in the story.
2. Draw several pictures in comic strip form showing the events as they happened. Write a caption for each picture.
3. Prepare a short
oral report from your outline. Be sure to tell all episodes in order in which
they were related in the story.
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I . Write a paragraph telling something you have seen or done yourself which is related to material read in this story or book.
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Read a story about a pioneer.
1. Compare the pioneer ways of travelling to the
way you travel.
2. What problems did these people have? Do we still
have these problems?
3. Would you like to trade places with this person?
Why?
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS,
MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS
Read a fictional story and then:
1. Choose one of the characters in the story and tell how he felt at the end
of the story.
2. What had caused him to feel this way?
3. Did his feelings at the end of the story differ from his feels at the beginning
of the story? If you think they did, explain the difference.
COMPREHENSION: MAKING JUDGMENTS AND DRAWING
CONCLUSIONS
1. Choose a story character which you would like to have as a friend. Tell why
you believe this character would make a good friend.
2. Name a story character which you would not like
to have for a friend. Give a reason.
COMPREHENSION: RECOGNIZING SEQUENCE IN
A STORY
1. Make four pictures to show what happened in
the story.
2. Arrange the pictures in order.
3. Write a sentence under each picture to tell what
is happening.
4. Clip the pictures together to make a book.
COMPREHENSION: IDENTIFYING THE SPEAKER AND
THE WORDS SPOKEN BY HIM
1. Select some of the most important sayings of one of the story characters.
Write these words down just as they were given in the story. Put in all the
punctuation marks correctly.
COMPREHENSION: MAKING JUDGMENTS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS,
MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Read a fictional story which has several characters.
2. Choose two important characters from the story.
3. Tell how they were alike.
4. Tell how they were different.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS,
MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Read a biography.
2. Choose of the important events in the life of
this person.
3. Now tell how you think this person felt about
this important event.
4. Copy home sentences from the biography which
support your opinions.
COMPREHENSION: STRENGTHENING MEMORY OF
MATERIALS READ
1. From memory list the important parts of the story in the order that they
occurred.
2. Check your work by re-reading the story.
COMPREHENSION: INTERPRETING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS,
MOTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STORY CHARACTERS
1. Study the pictures in a storybook. Find
and give the page number of:
a. A picture showing someone who seems
to
be very happy
b. A picture of someone who looks sad
c. A picture of someone who looks
anxious
or worried
d. A picture of someone who is excited
e. A picture of someone who is angry or
displeased
f. A picture of someone who is
frightened.
COMPREHENSION: MAKING JUDGMENTS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
COMPREHENSION: RECOGNIZING SEQUENCE IN A STORY
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Read a story about a person in another country.
2. Tell some things he or she does that are different
from things you do.
3. Tell some things he or she does that are similar to
things that you do.
4. Would you like to visit his country?
5. How would you get there?
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM
READING TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Read an adventure story.
2. Have you had an adventure of this kind?
3. List the ways in which your adventure was like
the adventure in the story.
4. Which do you think was the most exciting - your
adventure or the story adventure?
5. In what ways was your adventure different from
the one in the story.
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Read a story about an animal.
1. Do you think this animal has any value for you or your town? Answer yes or
no, and tell why.
2. How does this animal compare to your pet or your
friend's pet?
COMPREHENSION: RELATING IDEAS GAINED FROM READING
TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Read a story about an inventor.
1. Did this invention cause any change in your way
of living? If so, how did it change?
2.
Why do you feel there was a need for this invention
at that time?
3.
Briefly tell about something you have considered
inventing
COMPREHENSION: EASY BOOK REPORT OR STORY REPORT
COMPREHENSION: SUMMARIZING AND ORGANIZING IDEAS
COMPREHENSION: SUMMARIZING AND ORGANIZING IDEAS
Word from the story | Prefix or Suffix | Meaning of Prefix or Suffix | Root Word |
JOB
CARD NO. 91
WORD ATTACH SKILLS: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
List
as many words as you can for this story which are formed by adding one of these
endings to a root
word.
Underline the ending. s e s
d ed ing