Teacher Created Reading: Differentiated and Tiered Task Sheet

Name: ________________________________  Date:  _________________________

Reading:  Differentiated and Tiered Task Sheet

Direction:  Read a story or a book.  Then complete each task.  Some tasks require you to complete the tasks according to you reading group placement. 

Write the name of the story or book on the line.  _____________________________

The vocabulary words are ________________, _____________, _____________, ________________, and ____________________.

Task One:  Vocabulary/Writing

Group Blue:  Write a sentence using each vocabulary word in your small group reading journal.  Illustrate each sentence.  Then write a story using the vocabulary words in your reading journal.  Illustrate the story at the bottom of the paper. 

Group Yellow:  Write one sentence from the story for each vocabulary word.  Illustrate each sentence. Write a sentence using each vocabulary word. Then write a story using the vocabulary words in your reading journal.  Illustrate the story at the bottom of the paper.

Group Green:  Draw and label a picture to represent each vocabulary word.

Task Two:  Word Building

Make words using onsets and rimes.  Write a list of words from the book or story to identify onsets and rimes in words.  Write sentences using each word.  Illustrate each sentence.

Group Blue:  Make 4 words using onsets and rimes.

Group Yellow:  Make 3 words onsets and rimes.

Group Green:  Make 2 words onsets and rimes.

Task Three: Reading Comprehension

Write a paragraph that summarizes the plot in the story or book.

Task Four:   Graphic Organizer

Make a bubble map of words with the  _______________________ sound.  Write the words with the_________________ sound in the center of the bubble map.  Then draw bubbles and write the number of words with the  _____________________ sound around the bubble map according to your reading group placement.

Group Blue:  Write seven words with the____________________ sound around the bubble map.

Group Yellow:  Write five words with the ________________ sound around the bubble map.

Group Green:  Write four words with the  __________________ sound around the bubble map.

Write a sentences using three of the words in the bubble map. 

Task Five:

Draw and label one setting from the story or book on a page in your reading journal.

Task Six:  Sequence

Draw and label three or more pictures that sequence the plot for the story or book. 

Task Seven:  Alphabetical Order

Put the following list of words from the story or book in alphabetical order. 

The words are _______________________, _______________________, ______________________, and ________________________________.

1.  _________________ 

2.  _________________  

3.  _________________

4.  _________________

Task Eight:  Dictionary Skills/ Glossary Skills

Use the dictionary or the glossary in the book to define the word ___________________.

________________________________________________________________________

Write a sentence using the word ______________________________.

_______________________________________________________________________

Task Nine:  Performance Task

Use several sheets of construction paper to draw pictures that represent the reason the author wrote the story or book. On a sheet of typing paper, make a collage with the pictures that represent the reason the author wrote the story.

Task Ten:  Paragraph

Write a paragraph that explains the reason the author wrote the story or book.