TAP Cards: Informational Text Card Set for Middle School

Nonfiction can be the hardest text for middle schoolers to analyze. These prompts make it manageable.

Build nonfiction analysis skills in grades 6–8.

Text Analysis Prompt Cards, or TAP Cards for short, give students evidence-based prompts that require close reading, analysis, and support from the text. This informational set works with any nonfiction text, and example text is grade appropriate.

Each set includes 34 low- to mid-level prompts and 34 higher-level prompts, 68 prompts in all. Aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for grades 6–8.

Teaching fiction too? Get the middle school Literary and Informational Text sets together.

Back it up with evidence.

4E2083: 34 cards (68 prompts), 4 x 6 inches, laminated cardstock. Middle school.