Dolphins’ SEA Lab
Gifted Program
Parent/Student Handbook
(Seeking Excellence through Advancement)
FCAT Task Cards for Reading MAIN IDEA (LA.A.2.2.1)
Design a question that requires students to find the main idea of the passage. Support your answer with details and information from the story or article. What is the MAIN IDEA of this story or article? Write a summary of ____________________________________________________. Why do you think this story or article has the title “___________________________”? Retell in your own words a portion of the story. What would be another good title for this story or article? What is the essential message in the story or article?
SUPPORTING DETAILS (LA.A.2.2.1)
Design a question for which students must identify relevant facts and details in order to form an answer. Encourage higher order thinking by asking questions which require students to infer. Support your answer with details and information from the text.
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
How?
What happened?
Why?
What caused?
Source: M-DCPS - The Comprehensive Reading Plan Companion
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Gifted Program
Dolphins’ SEA Lab
Parent/Student Handbook
(Seeking Excellence through Advancement)
FCAT Task Cards for Reading CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (LA.A.2.2.1)
Design a question for which students must use sequencing in order to form an answer. Support your answer with details and information from the text. What happened just BEFORE or AFTER _____________________________________? What happened first, second, third, last, etc…? What happened between ______________________ and ______________________? What is the first step in _________________________________________________? Retell the events leading up to or following __________________________________.
VOCABULARY (LA.A.1.2.3)
Design a question that requires students to determine the meaning of a word in context, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, root words, multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and word relationships. Support your answer with details and information from the text. Read this sentence from the passage. Copy sentence or phrase from passage here. What does the word __________________________ mean? What does the author mean when he says _________________________________? Choose the word that means the SAME as _________________________________. Choose the word that means the OPPOSITE of ______________________________. What two words best describe the word ___________________________________. Which two words mean the same or opposite? Source: M-DCPS - The Comprehensive Reading Plan Companion
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Gifted Program
Dolphins’ SEA Lab
Parent/Student Handbook
(Seeking Excellence through Advancement)
FCAT Task Cards for Reading COMPARE AND CONTRAST (LA.A.2.2.7)
Design a question which requires students to recognize the use of comparison and contrast in text. Support your answer with facts and details from the story or article.
How are ________________________ and ______________________ ALIKE? How is _______________________ DIFFERENT from ______________________? How is ________________ both SIMILAR and DIFFERENT from ______________? What is one DIFFERENCE between _________________ and ________________? How is ________________________ dissimilar to _________________________? What are the DIFFERENCES between __________________ and _____________? What are the SIMILARITIES between __________________ and _____________?
SIMILARITIES/DIFFERENCES IN TEXT (LA.E.1.2.3)
Design a question which requires students to find similarities and differences in characters, settings, and events presented in various texts. Support your answer with details and information from the text.
How are ________________________ and ________________________ ALIKE? How is ______________________ DIFFERENT from ______________________? How is ______________ both SIMILAR to and DIFFERENT from _____________? What is one DIFFERENCE between ________________ and ________________? How is _________________________ dissimilar to ______________________? How did the character change from the beginning of the story until the end? What are the DIFFERENCES between _______________ and _______________? What are the SIMILARITIES between _______________ and _______________?
Source: M-DCPS - The Comprehensive Reading Plan Companion
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Gifted Program
Dolphins’ SEA Lab
Parent/Student Handbook
(Seeking Excellence through Advancement)
FCAT Task Cards for Reading PLOT DEVELOPMENT/RESOLUTION (LA.E.2.2.2)
Design a question that requires students to identify plot development and/or problem resolution in the story? Support your answer with details and information from the text. What problem did the character face? What happens that causes the character to change from the beginning to the end of the story? How is the problem solved in the story? What events lead to the resolution of the problem in the story?
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE (LA.A.2.2.2)
Design a question that requires students to identify the author’s purpose and support it by returning to the text for details and information. Support your answer with details and information from the text. What does the author mean when he or she writes ___________________________? Why did the author write the article? What is the author’s purpose in writing this article? With which statement would the author most likely agree? Why did the author begin the article or story with ___________________________? Why did the author include the description of _______________ in the article/story?
Source: M-DCPS - The Comprehensive Reading Plan Companion
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Gifted Program
Dolphins’ SEA Lab
Parent/Student Handbook
(Seeking Excellence through Advancement)
FCAT Task Cards for Reading CAUSE AND EFFECT (LA.E.2.2.1)
Design a question that requires students to describe the cause or effect of an action or event in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. Support your answer with details and information from the text.
What caused ___________________________ to __________________________? What effect did __________________________ have on ____________________? What are the events that caused ________________________________________? What might happen if _________________________________________________? What is the effect of __________________________________________________? Why does a character take a particular action ______________________________? What were the results of an event or action?
REFERENCE AND RESEARCH (MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF INFORMATION) (LA.E.2.2.8)
This Benchmark could actually include any of the other tested benchmarks such as Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, etc. It requires the student to gather the information from charts, graphics, maps and captions as well as the text. Design a question using a stem from the matching benchmark task card and direct the reader to the appropriate graphic and the text to answer the question e.g. Look at the picture next to step 5. Why is the box held up in the air? Remember to read the text and also gather information from: captions, maps/charts, footnotes, and/or illustrations.
Source: M-DCPS - The Comprehensive Reading Plan Companion
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