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A great way to get your students engaged and model how to organize thoughts is to use an Anchor Chart. Step 1: During whole class instruction read a story to your class. (or direct instruction of new content) Step 2: Making an opportunity for shared writing by using an Anchor Chart on chart paper to organize students ideas. An Anchor Chart has: -Title to remind students what was covered. -Visuals to reinforce what was covered. -Headings that are easy to follow. -Simple text created by students. -Colour. Step 3: Using the parts of an Anchor Chart create your own format to help students brainstorm to fill in the information together as a class. It is called an Anchor Chart because it acts as a visual aid to content covered in class. The great part about using an Anchor Chart is that by modelling this type of organizing you can use it at a listening station to get students to go deeper into the stories they are hearing. The word document is a smaller example of an Anchor Chart for you to look at. |
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These two great pictures of anchor charts come from Deedee Wills, a kindergarten teacher at Owensville Elementary School in Missouri. Deedee created a morning procedure chart and since that worked really well, she also created a chart for use at the end of the school day. Great ideas!
Once students have the routine down you can remove the anchor chart. Remember your walls should be changing all the time to reflect what you are teaching. If students are having time with a certain routine or topic you can leave the anchor chart up for as long as you and your students need it to use as a visual cue. |
