Learner Profile for Reading Text Analysis Reading Strategies. Task Cards By Susan Powers 2015

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1 Learner Profile for Reading Text Analysis Reading Strategies Task Cards By Susan Powers 2015

2 Combining literacy within the IB PYP Learner Profile helps to reinforce the profile of a learner and helps your students to gain a deeper understanding of what the Learner Profile means about being a whole learner. These fun, differentiated reading task cards are aligned with the IB PYP and the Common Core State Standards for ELA. Included: Inferring skills Questioning Predicting Summarising Cause and Effect Author s Purpose Connection Synthesising Main idea Citing evidence from the text. There are 4 task cards for each trait of the Learner Profile, giving a total of 40 cards. They are designed to be used for text evaluation, analysis and focusing on the skill of reflection and close reading of the text. These task cards can be used in guided reading, small group activities, centres or independent follow up. The cards can be used for written responses and oral responses. They make great discussion provocations within literacy group work. You may also be interested in my other literacy activities and IB PYP Complete Units of Inquiry in my store. Enjoy! Susan Powers

3 From the text, tell about something that you were already knowledgeable about. Use evidence from the text. Explain how you already knew about this. Knowledgeable Write about something you read in the text that you did not know about. Explain what you learned from the text. Knowledgeable Using your knowledge of the book, write a summary of the book. Include examples from the text to support your summary. Explain about the main idea of the text. List 3-5 details from the text to support your answers. Knowledgeable Knowledgeable

4 From the text, list 3-5 questions that you wondered about. Explain why you wondered about these things from the book. Inquirer From the text, list 5-8 questions that you wondered about. Choose 3 of your questions and explain clearly why you wondered about those things. Inquirer Think about the setting of the book. How would you try to improve or change this setting. What did you think about the author s description of the setting? Inquirer Find out where this book was set. Can you draw a map to show where this book was set. Is it fictional or is it a real location? Inquirer

5 From the text, tell about how a character was caring. Would you have been as caring?explain your opinion. Does the author show the characters to be caring? Describe a part of the text where a caring attitude is shown in the plot. Caring Caring Describe how you would make a character in the text more caring. Draw your character as you visualise them and list the caring character traits. Caring Do you feel that the author is a caring person based upon this story? Is there a caring theme? Explain your perspective and use evidence from the text to SUPPORT your opinion. Caring

6 Think about the ending of the book. How do you think the story might continue? Describe what would happen if you write one more last chapter. Thinker Describe where one of the characters had to show the character trait of thinker. What was the reason for the character having to be a thinker? Use evidence from the text to SUPPORT your answer. Thinker From the text, share a part of the plot that caused you to either PREDICT or INFER. Describe your prediction or inference and explain why you thought this way. Thinker What do you think was the climax in this text? Describe the rising action of the plot and explain how it made you feel. Illustrate your visual of this climax moment. Thinker

7 From the text, share a part of the book where the author showed a character to be principled. Explain why you feel this was being principled. Principled Describe how a character was being principled in the book. Principled Describe a part of the text where a character is definitely NOT being principled. Explain how this made you feel. How would you change this character s actions? Principled Illustrate a scene in the book that showed a character being principled. Use 2-3 examples from the text as captions for your illustration to SUPPORT your opinion. Principled

8 How does the author show the characters to be balanced within this book? Use evidence from the book to support your answer. From the text, describe a part of the plot where there was balance. Balanced Balanced Think about how the author could make this plot more balanced. Write or draw a cartoon to show how you would create more balance in the story. List 3-5 examples from the book that shows balance in the plot. Select 2-3 of these examples and explain why you feel they show balance. Balanced Balanced

9 Using the book as evidence, explain how the protagonist is or is not a good communicator. Explain your perspective. From the text, give examples of how the author helped you to clearly visualise the characters. Communicator Communicator Would you recommend this book to a friend? Communicate your perspective of this book in a well written report. Communicate your opinion of this author in a well written paragraph. Be sure to use examples from the text to support your perspective. Communicator Communicator

10 From the text, explain about something a character did or said that you feel was being open-minded. Explain why you feel this way. Open minded From the text, tell about something that made you feel that this was not very open minded. Explain why you feel this way. Open minded Do you feel that the author is being open minded within this book? Give examples from the text to support your answer. Describe a character that you feel is an open minded character. Explain what they did that makes you believe this. Open minded Open minded

11 From the text, explain what you noticed to be risk taking. Reflect upon whether you might do the same thing, or not. Explain. Risk taker Do you feel that the author was being a risk taker with this book. Give examples from the text to support your answer. Risk taker Imagine that you are a character in this book. Describe what you would do in the story that would involve being a risk taker. Use examples from the text to support your answer. Risk taker Describe a scene from the text that you think shows risk taking. Explain why you think this is taking a risk. Risk taker

12 From the text, explain what you noticed to be courageous. Reflect upon whether you might do the same thing, or not. Explain. Courageous Do you feel that the author was being courageous with this book. Give examples from the text to support your answer. Courageous Imagine that you are a character in this book. Describe what you would do in the story that would involve being courageous. Use examples from that text to support your answer. Courageous Describe a scene from the text that you think shows courage. Explain why you think this is being courageous. Courageous

13 Reflect upon the main idea of the text. Write about the main idea of the text. How do you know this is the main idea? Reflective Think about a character in the text that caught your attention. Explain why you chose this character. Reflective From the text, reflect upon the visualising that you had. Describe how the author helped you to visualise. Give examples from the text to support your answer. Would you change the cover of this book based upon the main idea? Design your new cover OR explain why you think it is already a good front cover. Reflective Reflective

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