Carson-Dellosa Task Cards & Giveaway

It's the last Monday of July {gasp!} and, if you're like me, 

you're starting to think seriously about back-to-school supplies. 

What new resources are you excited about?

Roger Lewin once said, "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve," and that's why I'm loving these new 

Carson-Dellosa Task Cards. 

Available for grades K-5, these write-on/wipe-off cards will take your students up Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains from simply remembering and understanding, through applying and analyzing, all the way to mastery, including evaluating and creating. 

Each of these boxes contains 50 cards for math and 50 cards for language arts; each Task Card is aligned with a corresponding 

Common Core State Standard.

The Kindergarten-level (age 5) cards include prompts for centers that could also easily complement calendar time, be morning meeting talks, or act as drawing topics for journal time. They include options to integrate the cards into other skill sets as well. Engage your artists with this card:  Use clay or another material to make a sphere and a cylinder. Weave in some acting with this one:  Use a voice like a lion to count to 30. Start at 11. Connect with your kinesthetic learners with a card like this: Count to 100 by ones. Clap your hands or tap your feet as you say each number.

Formatted and packaged in the same style, the other levels through grade five follow suit. Grade 1 Task Cards include prompts that are understandably a bit more rigorous and developmentally-appropriate for six-year-old students. Brightly colored like the K cards and still perfect prompts for centers, writing, or buddy-buzz time, these cards are more detailed and include even more chances for extension. Let's look at this sample card; not only does it ask for the students to read a short story and answer How? and What? comprehension questions ...

... but it also opens up an opportunity to talk about what an animal shelter is and possibly even spark a service-learning project because students love to help animals. Maybe they can't get a get a kitten like the little boy on the card, but brainstorm with them about what they could do to support your local animal shelter. What might the animals need? 

How could your class family help?
When Common Core meets core values like caring and helping, 
it's bound to create a win-win.

Our friends at Carson-Dellosa even have a free teacher resource guide available for this product {here}.

Have I piqued your curiosity about these critical-thinking Task Cards? 
Cool, because Carson-Dellosa is giving away a box of the Task Cards {the grade level of your choice!} or any one item from the Common Core Products on the graphic below to one lucky reader. 
WoW! ... I know, right?

Click to enlarge and see your many options!

It's easy to enter. Simply leave a comment about how you would use the product of your choice and then check back Thursday to see who won. Contest is opened between now and Thursday, August 1st, at 12:00 p.m. central time. One winner will be selected at random from all of the comment entries and announced Thursday afternoon. 
Come back then to see if it's you!

This contest is now closed.
Click {here} to see who won.

Thank you, Carson-Dellosa, for this awesome product and partnership.
Here's to a magical 2013-2014 school year.