Grades 3-6

20 task cards, each with a different

autumn-themed, open-ended challenge.

 Variety of activities
 Mostly writing based
 Focused on creative and critical thinking
 Here are 20 autumn-themed task cards that will work perfectly at a
center or for any student who finishes his or her work early. Each card
features a different fall-related, open-ended challenge; perfect for
working on those creative and critical thinking skills!

These cards will look best in color, but will also print out fine in
grayscale. Simply print and cut along the guidelines. Laminate and use
them again and again. Alternatively, you could print on cardstock. It
works well to keep them in a baggie. Another option is to hole-punch a
corner of each card and put them all on a ring.
You can find many more task cards and higher level thinking activities at
my Teachers Pay Teachers Store, including many freebies like this one!

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 Have you heard leaves
crackle under your feet
1 You have decided to start 2
during autumn? The word crackle is a leaf-raking business in
an onomatopoeia because it sounds your neighborhood.
like what it describes.
Create an ad that will convince the
Write five sentences about autumn people in your neighborhood that
that each use a different they should hire you. Be sure to
onomatopoeia. include a picture.
Illustrate one of
your sentences.

Salmon leave the ocean and How would you know it

swim upstream to spawn
3 was autumn if there were
4
during autumn. Many salmon no calendars?
do not make it because the way is
blocked, or they are killed by Make a list of as many signs of
animals or humans. autumn as you can. Think about how
autumn looks, sounds, smells,
Pretend that you are a salmon tastes, and feels.
swimming upstream.
Write a journal entry
for a day in your life.

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 You have bought a large
5 Pretend that you are in 6
pumpkin but you are not charge of planning an
going to carve it into a Jack-O- autumn fair or harvest festival
Lantern. What else could you do for your school. What games and
with your pumpkin? List as many activities would you plan? What
things as you can. kinds of food and drink would you
serve?

Make a list of all the words 7 Trees that lose their leaves
8
you can think of that rhyme each autumn are called deciduous
with, "fall." trees.
Use your list to write a silly poem How many deciduous trees can you
about autumn. Your poem should be name? Make a list.
at least eight lines long.

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 9 Think about last autumn. 10
How was your life different?
Finish this sentence in 20 different
How was it the same?
ways:
Make a T-Chart. On one side, list
Autumn is...
ways your life is different now. On
the other side, list ways
it is the same.

Many kinds of fruits and

Make a Top Ten list of your
11 vegetables are harvested in
12
favorite autumn activities. autumn.
Your very favorite should be
at the top. Make a list of all of the fruits and
vegetables you can think of. Then
Remember, autumn includes circle all of the ones you have never
Halloween and tried. Put a star by the ones you like
Thanksgiving. and an X by the
ones you do not
like.

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 Personification means
giving human qualities to
13 14
something that is not human. Make your paper into a
T-chart. On one side of the chart list
Personify a tree that is losing its everything you like about fall. On the
leaves in autumn. Write a paragraph other side, write everything you do
from the point of view of the tree not like. List as many things as you
about how it is feeling can.
and what it is thinking.
Illustrate your
paragraph.

Write the alphabet down

15 The four seasons have 16
the left side of your paper. decided that one of them
Try to come up with a different should become the President
autumn word that begins with each of the Seasons. Each season will
letter (q, x, and z, you can use an give a speech telling why he or she
autumn word that has the letter in it.) should get to be the president.
Pretend that you have been hired to
write Autumn's speech.

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 Divide a piece of paper into
five columns (you may want
17 18
to turn is side-ways). Write one of the
five senses at the top of each column The answer is, "autumn."
(sight, sound, touch, smell, taste).
Then list as many fall words or Write eight different questions.
phrases as you can in each column.
It is okay to put the
same thing in more
than one column.

"A wind has blown the rain away 20

Alliteration is when all or 19
most of the words in a
and blown the sky away and all the
phrase begin with the same sound. leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too,
have known autumn too long."
Example: Salmon swim slowly. - e.e. cummings.

Write five alliterative phrases or What do you think the author meant
sentences about when he wrote this?
autumn. Illustrate What do you think
one of your phrases. he was feeling?

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Name ____________________________________

Use this chart to keep track of the Inference Task

Cards that you have completed. Remember to have
your teacher initial or stamp the  column.

Card Date Card Date

 
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