Creation Myths Reading Cards for Middle & High School | ELA + Humanities

Easily build background knowledge on an essential topic that often comes up in English Language Arts and Humanities texts: CREATION. This educational digital download includes rich close reading activities related to creation, from literature to arts. The growing bundle includes illustrated passages designed for the middle and high school English Language Arts classroom. Help students develop reading comprehension skills and deepen their understanding of reading texts. The reading cards in this set are typically used for reading and analysis of a text in either a carousel or gallery reading protocol. The cards can be printed out as physical cards or assigned as digital tools. Students work in groups to become experts on their card’s topic.

Students can make predictions, identify literary devices, summarize critical ideas, and make connections to their own experiences or other texts they have read. Also, use the reading cards to promote active reading strategies such as annotating the text, identifying unfamiliar vocabulary, and making notes on the margins of the page. By using reading cards, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, improve their ability to analyze and interpret texts and increase their reading proficiency.

Additionally, reading cards can help students develop greater independence and confidence in reading and understanding complex texts.

The cards are available as PDF and Google Workspace files.

Features Include:

• Teacher’s Notes for Using this Resource as either a Carousel or Gallery Walk
• 40 Reading Card Topics / Illustrated

Creation Myths

1 Creation Myth: Dictionary Entry

2 Hebrew Myth of Creation

3 The Elohist Story of Creation

4 The Yahwist Story of Creation

5 The Talmudic Story of Creation

6 Brahma the Creator

7 There Was Not

8 Creation by Brahma

9 Brahma is Lonely

10 Two Philosophical Creation Myths

11 Pelasgian Creation Myth (with Notes)

12 Homeric Creation Myth

13 Cosmic Egg (Or, World-Egg)

14 Olympian Myth of Creation

15 Prometheus and Epimetheus

16 Prometheus: Archaeology Connection

17 Pandora

18 Athena: Her Unique Birth from the Head of Zeus

Primordial Beings

19 Gaia and Uranos

20 Castration of Uranos

Titans

21 Kronos (Saturn)

22 Rhea

23 Ocean and Tethys

24 Nyx and Eros (Phanes) 

25 Atlas

26 Helios

27 Hecate

28 Leto, Themis, & Nemesis

Rise of Humans

29 The Four Yugas

30 The Fate of the Thieves

31 The Meeting of the Ages

32 The Five Ages

33 Deucalion and Pyrrha

34 Noah and the Flood

35 Noah: Art & Literature

36 Noah’s Ark: Political Cartoon

37 Mount Ararat

Other Stories

38 Persephone

39 Hundred-Handed Giants (Hecatoncheires)

40 Thetis and Peleus

Appendix

A Reading Protocols

B Reading Task Card

C Frayer Model for Vocabulary-in-Context

D Notecatcher

E Further Reading: Creation in Literature and Art

Bonus: Standards Alignment Chart (Common Core, TEKS, VA SOL)

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