Anchor charts are a great tool for helping students remember routines and apply the strategies you've taught in class. Whether they're helping students activate their schema, recording learning, or outlining strategies that students can use on their own, these visual resources are a must-have for elementary
Classroom Reading Organization Tips for guided reading groups, reading lessons and how to make your reading instruction more than manageable!
These kindergarten anchor charts will give you the tools you need to teach math, reading, friendship skills, and much more!
Interested in using anchor charts with older students? Read about benefits, best practices, and materials to make the experience a success.
Includes: stool explaining main idea (color and black and white) stool explaining main idea and supporting details (color and black and white) stool explains main idea, questions when thinking about main idea, and supporting detail support. (color and black and white) I enlarge this chart and we practice together multiple times using read alouds. Then, when they are ready, I shrink this page down for them to use in their composition book Reader's Notebooks. Tracing: Open up the document and project it onto your Smart board. Hang a piece of chart paper over the board and adjust the sizingof the document on your computer to project the document onto the chart paper Simply trace
Teaching dependent and independent clauses in upper elementary does not have to be as tricky or difficult as you think.
When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult
Then, we used a little total physical response to give my firsties a better visual on how the size of the places we live are related. They *loved* this
When it comes to teaching close reading and annotation, is there anything worse than seeing your students mindlessly highlighting for pages and pages with no real understanding of what they're highlighting or why they're highlighting it? The frustrating part is that highlighting indicates that they're trying, but it often shows that they don't understand why.
Annotating texts is a powerful strategy for readers. Get tips and strategies to help your students annotate effectively and use their annotations.
How do you control a chatty class? Excessive talking can derail your lesson, so use these strategies for managing talk in your classroom.
These kindergarten anchor charts will give you the tools you need to teach math, reading, friendship skills, and much more!
Understanding characters can be tricky! Learn my favorite strategies for helping students master character traits and changes.
I LOVE making charts! Step into my classroom and you’ll probably say, “Wow, someone has too much time!” but to be honest, I don’t! I just love them so much and love the w…
Anchor charts that will engage your students while they learn about identifying the author's purpose in a nonfiction text!
Helping K-2 Teachers Like You Save Time, Grow Instructional Skills, and Teach With Confidence!
Do you look on Pinterest for Anchor Chart ideas and give up at the thought that your Anchor Chart could never look that amazing? It actually doesn’t have to be that difficult to make an amazi…
Use the train analogy to teach students about subjects and predicates! This blog post contains an anchor chart and several matching activities.
$ Money $ 7 Great Titles for Teaching Money 1. Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday By: Judith Viorst 2. "Smart" (poem) from Where The Sidewalk Ends By: Shel Silverstein 3. The Go Around Dollar By: Barbara Adams 4. How the Second Grade Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty By: Nathan Zimelman 5. If You Made a Million By: David Schwartz 6. Money Madness By: David Adler 7. The Case of the Shrunken Allowance By: Joanne Rocklin
60+ Must Make Kindergarten Anchor Charts for the classroom. Covers classroom management, literacy and math. Multiple ideas!
Concluding our first, nine weeks, we were looking at Elements of Drama. Having a bilingual classroom, and trying to teach everything in English only, I am in constant need of visuals and props to help my students to best master our Learning Objectives (here in Texas, they are the also known as TEKS). We had to break down and identify the Elements of Drama in a literary work. I found an excellent file on TeacherspayTeachers.com, which I will link at the bottom of this post. Some of the different resources that I used were: * A Gift from the Heart ( you can compare this to The Legend of the Blue Bonnet). * The Diary of Anne Frank * Fiddler on the Roof (Small musical segments posted on Youtube.com, they tend to be about 5 minutes in length) Elements of Drama Anchor Chart
Teaching text features to your primary students should be fun and engaging for your students. See many activities and suggestions!
Teachers need quick ways to communicate classroom rules to little ones. Preschoolers benefit from visual aids for understanding dos and donts. Creating simple, engaging rule printables is the goal.We craft preschool rules printables to help little ones understand expectations easily.
Making anchor charts has always been hard work for me. In fact, I never liked making anchor charts for the classroom. I did it because it helps the kids, but I am not a fan of my handwriting, my drawing is even worse, and let’s not even talk about the time it takes to make […]
These are my must have Amazon finds for your classroom this year! Grab a few of these and save your time and your sanity!
Find out how I had fun practicing rounding with upper elementary students with hands-on rounding activities and games! Freebies included.
This blog post has helpful information on how to teach character in elementary grades. There are activities and ideas for teachers!
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Load up your Character Education Perseverance month with this bundle of activities, lessons, bulletins, charts and more!
Do you hate to teach poetry? Do you want your students to learn and enjoy poetry? Try these simple ways to learn how to teach poetry...
Analyzing character traits is a key fiction reading skill that is needed for successful comprehension. In most cases, authors do not just come out and tell readers the traits that a character possesses. By teaching
My new obsession this year has been making and using anchor charts for my lessons. Here are just some of the anchor charts I have made this year. Some of these charts are original ideas but many are ideas I have seen and used from other teachers. I am not good at drawing so I use clipart from my computer to add pictures to my anchor charts. I print them out and glue them onto the chart! It’s so much easier and looks so much better than what I could draw! I also laminate my anchor charts so I can use them year to year. By laminating the charts I can easily write and erase on them by using an Expo marker. Click HERE to download the worksheet writing templates for opinion writing, informative writing, step writing, personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and postcard writing that match these anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the files needed to make the Sequence of Events and Transitional Word Examples anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the file needed to make the Fiction/Non-Fiction Sort anchor chart from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the words I used on these anchor charts on my TpT store!
Are you lacking the creative skills to draw your own anchor charts? Don't stress over having a perfectly drawn, colorful anchor chart. This post will show you how to take a PDF anchor chart and make it poster size! It is easy and just as effective! STEPS TO MAKING
These Recess Queen activities and lesson ideas will help your students practice important reading comprehension skills in an engaging way.
You head to Pinterest to find an anchor chart. It's super cute! It's colorful, nice and neat, and the graphics are amazing! Who has time for that!?!?
Teaching fables and folktales is specifically referred to in the Common Core standards. Here is an anchor chart to help students recognize traits of fables
