Writing Process and Grammar Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

This Writing Process and Grammar Task Card Bundle includes five sets of cards to help your kids improve their writing skills by practicing revising and proofreading - two steps of the writing process that need lots of practice. The sets are: Revising Task Cards, Proofreading Task Cards, Capitalization and Punctuation Task Cards, Parts of Speech Task Cards, and Subject-Verb Agreement Task Cards.

Each set of thirty cards contains a variety of activities, great for centers, stations, classroom games, group work, and individual review or practice. Here is what is included in each set:

Revising Task Cards

With these cards, students work on specific revisions one at a time. The specific revisions include:

Removing unnecessary words

Adding details

Replacing common words

Using pronouns to replace nouns

Changing word order

Changing tense or point of view

Using active instead of passive voice

Using direct quotes

Adding figurative language

Most of the cards present four sentences with directions to make a specific type on revision to each card. The three final cards each present a short paragraph with directions to make a number of revisions to each. The cards are designed specifically for revising, where students aim to improve the writing, not just correct errors.

Proofreading Task Cards

These proofreading, or editing, task cards gives students practice correcting common types of errors. The topics include punctuation, capitalization, grammar, run-on sentences, homophones, and spelling.

Each of these cards provides a short assignment, most with three to four questions. Also included are three longer passages for the students to proofread.

Capitalization and Punctuation

These cards provide practice with basic capitalization and punctuation rules plus punctuating quotes and capitalization when writing a letter.

- Capitalization Rules - Seven cards. Each card is about one or more specific capitalization rules. Each of these cards includes the rule, an example, and student practice.

- Punctuation Rules - Ten Cards. Each of these cards is about one or more specific punctuation rules, and also contains the rule, an example, and student practice.

- Writing Quotations - Two cards about capitalization and punctuation rules that apply to writing quoted lines.

- Writing Letters - One card about capitalization and punctuation rules for writing a letter.

- Mixed Capitalization Practice - Four Cards.

- Mixed Punctuation Practice - Four cards.

- Mixed Capitalization and Punctuation Practice - Two cards.

- Two posters - one with capitalization rules and one with punctuation rules that can be posted for students to refer to or copied for their notebooks

Parts of Speech Task Cards

Parts of Speech Task Cards include three cards each about nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions, and one card about interjections. In addition, there are eight cards that are each about several or all of the parts of speech.

The activities include sorting for parts of speech, adding a particular part of speech to a sentence, listing words of a particular part of speech and using them in a short passage, matching, unscrambling sentences, and labeling the parts of speech in a sentence.

Subject-Verb Agreement Task Cards

Subject-Verb Agreement task cards provide students in middle school and upper elementary grades with lots of practice using the rules of subject-verb agreement.

Rules are covered one by one with the two basic rules and nine specific ones. There are two or three cards for each rule. The activities include choosing the correct verb form, correcting errors in subject-verb agreement, and writing sentences that fit specific rules. A chart of the eleven rules is included for posting on your classroom wall or including in students' notebooks.

The cards are designed with content and clip art for middle school and upper elementary students. With the variety of activities included they work well for differentiating among a group of students with mixed abilities. These cards address several of the Common Core standards for language and writing.

The Easel versions are ready to use with directions and answer boxes for student use.

For more bundles of task cards for language arts, vocabulary, and reading, see Bundles here at Classroom in the Middle.