Task Cards: Visible Prompt Thinking

These task cards help students tackle trick prompts that look similar but require different types of thinking. Students practice spotting small wording changes, overruling misleading signal words, and explaining why a prompt is asking for a WHY, Procedural HOW, or Relational HOW response. By comparing closely related prompts and defending their reasoning, students make their thinking visible and learn how precise language changes the kind of answer a question requires.