The Best Anchor Charts for your ELA classroom all together in one place! You will find outlines to utilize in Reading Literature, Reading Informational, Writing and Language.
Explained in this blog post is about the purpose of utilizing anchor charts in your daily instruction. Along with tips to organize your charts.
Below is a collection of anchor charts that have been used during instruction in my classroom. The goal of putting this blog post together is to help fellow educators.
The Purpose of Anchor Charts:
To being, anchor charts are a non-negotiable addition for my instruction. These visuals are looked at as a learning tool for my students and myself, ultimately becoming an instructional and learning strategy. Also, charts are a tool that not only supports the instructional goals of a lesson, but support students’ ongoing learning of the lesson.
These outlines are created to capture the content delivered in instruction. Along with building upon strategies and previous standards taught.
Finally, visuals created in lessons need to be accessible to students throughout the school year. They also help to create a visual imprint for students to refer back to when needed.
Anchor Chart Organization Tips:
- Labels – In the top of each anchor chart, label them by standards, category, skill, strategy, etc… This allows students an additional reference point.
- Hang by categories to display using a hanger and specific wall spot. Using command hooks and hangers is an easy way to organize your charts. (See my post for more Teaching Ideas by clicking HERE!)
- Always make ACADEMIC LANGUAGE stand out to help immerse students in the formal language. For example, use bold letters, capital letters, red markers, underline… Doing so allows you to slip in ACADEMIC LANGUAGE instruction which benefits students on future assessments.
- Anchor charts are meant to anchor a lesson, therefore to save time you can always create the outline, but leave open spaces to complete with students during lesson.
- Use large, bold letters when writing for students to see from across the room.
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- Create images and sections in your anchor chart to organize information.
Anchor Chart Examples:
Here are the anchor charts I have created in my 5th Grade ELA Classroom:
(Side Note: I use my own ideas, my students ideas and online ideas for these charts. Credit to all the fabulous teachers who have posted images of classroom visuals online, there are so many fabulous teacher-authors to give credit to, along with the shared ideas within my school buildings. Thank you for helping me instructionally and my students.)
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