Happy Monday! I dug back through some old pictures to find this synonym and antonym anchor chart for Anchors Away Monday with Crafting Connections: Synonym cinnamon bears (there’s a tongue-twister for ya!) and antonym ants. My students referred to this chart quite a bit.
I made this chart with my class when we were studying 3D shapes. All of the kids cut and taped together their own shapes. Then we held them up and counted the faces, edges, and vertices. The avalanche of card stock shapes went home with the kids (thank goodness) but we kept this chart to…
I just love anchor charts so I’m linking up again with Deb from Crafting Connections for: This week my anchor is about author’s purpose. There’s no sense in looking for the author’s purpose just to look for the author’s purpose. If we can figure out the author’s purpose, then we can read purposefully. If kids…
I just made this anchor chart for kids who are new to the concept of arrays. Click the picture to download this anchor chart for FREE! I highlighted the main vocabulary kids need to know about arrays. This chart could be projected during a lesson, put up on a math bulletin board, or…
I used this Recipe for a Sentence anchor chart to introduce my 2nd graders to the concept of subject and predicate. To make it a little more “kid-friendly,” we called the subject the naming part of the sentence. It names who or what the sentence is about. The predicate is the telling part of the…
A reading comprehension strategy for elementary students This post contains affiliate links. 6 Signposts for Close Reading If you’re a teacher that means you’ve been successful enough in school to get a college degree. This also means you are probably a natural “comprehender” when it comes to things that you read. I don’t remember being…