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Simple Classroom Anchor Charts

What are Anchor Charts? If you are new to teaching or even if you aren’t you might have heard the term “anchor charts”. What is an anchor chart you may be thinking? Anchor charts are more than a chance to show off your artistic abilities they should truly anchor student’s learning. They should be made at least partially with students and be up for students to reference while learning about a topic. They can also be used for data tracking and classroom management.

Management Classroom Anchor Charts

Upper Grades Literacy Rotation expectations. In lower grades, I had a chart for each.

When is it ok to interrupt the teacher? – Answer NEVER

Upper Grades Reading Mini Lesson Anchor Charts

Displaying on focus wall – abandoning book upper grades

upper grades just right book

Lower Grades Reading Mini Lesson Anchor Charts

Ask and Answer Questions

Synthesizing overview

Synthesizing Smoky Night – interactive anchor chart with student sticky notes over course of reading the book

Interactive Olive the Other Reindeer Character, Setting Problem Solution

Lily's Purple Plastic Purse Character Traits Anchor Chart

Character Traits inside and outside with Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

Making Connections Reading Comprehension Anchor Chart

Making deep connections.

Phonics Anchor Charts

Two Vowels Go Walking Anchor Chart -students generated some of the words for this chart

Bossy R Phonics – again students generated some words for this chart

One of my favorites! Phonics OU OW vowel with bandaids!

Writing Anchor Charts

Writing – revising and editing colors.

Beginning of the Year Classroom Anchor Charts

Beginning of the year upper grades Student input what do you need to be successful?

How do you feel? – emojis! Students can express their feelings about different subjects.

Flexible Seating Anchor Chart- great for setting up procedures. See full blog post on flexible seating HERE.

Behavior management – does it cause a problem?

Guest or substitute teacher Miss Nelson is Missing

Data Anchor Charts

Data Tracking – we tracked Data as a group and in our, Data Notebooks

Exit Ticket Share Your Thinking Anchor Chart

Interactive Share Your thinking, exit ticket, quick check, formative assessment!

Other Classroom Anchor Charts

KWL focus topic Moon tied to ELA fiction and nonfiction Kitten’s First Full Moon and the Moon book by Gail Gibbons.

Claim Evidence Reasoning Scientific Explanation and Argumentative Writing upper grades

100th Day Ms. Miller shouldn’t have to say!

Fruit – persuasive writing 1st grade, the best fruit is!

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