Reading anchor charts

Story Element Anchor Chart First grade

Borrow from the best! These teachers have created amazingly effective anchor charts for reading comprehension skills. You're going to love them all!

First Grade Smiles: An elementary teaching blog by Melissa Machan. K-2 teaching ideas, resources, freebies, classroom tips, and more.

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Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember…

Reading anchor chart

Cause and Effect Anchor Chart

Good readers...

Me: You just read this page. Can you tell me a little about what you know? Student: Ummmmm. . . . (Insert wait time here.) Me: I know you were really interested in reading this book when you chose it. Who did you read about on this page? (Insert more wait time.) Student: A boy? (Yes, answered as a question.) Me: Hmmm, can you tell me a bit about the boy? What was he doing? Student: Ummmmm. . . . (Insert lots more wait time here to be followed by major prompting that led to more answers…

Read to self procedures anchor chart

Here are the only three anchor charts you need to teach point of view in your elementary classroom! Simple and effective for best practices.

Anchor Chart for Teaching Main Idea :) the whole pizza is the main idea and the toppings are the details that support it!

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