These Teachers Love Them Some TPT! Do you see any. ![]() Using 5 Little Ducks to Teach Math and Literacy.Using Interactive Charts in Math and Literacy.Here are a few comprehension anchor charts: You will invite the children to record their thinking on post it notes and then organize them on the chart. They also allow for active engagement, an essential part to any mini lesson. ![]() They provide the teacher a framework where you can share your thinking as you model how to go through the process. It gives the brain a safe place to rest, a predictable format that allows the brain to focus on the new material. So why do I use these charts? Well, they provide a framework to model the comprehension strategy. Also, on the same page as the photo, I suggested some ways to use each chart. I took a full color photo of each chart so that you can use it as a sample for easy assembly. And while it does take some time to put them together, once completed they can be used over and over again with various pieces of text…no more wasted chart paper. Now, these charts do require assembly and are full color. What Are Story Elements This text-based chart is better for older elementary kids. It lays out the basic story elements, leaving room to add information with a marker or sticky notes. There are charts for: Story Elements, Retelling, Story Maps, Making Predictions, Inferences, Connections, Vocabulary, Fiction/Non Fiction, Characters, Partner Work, and Questioning. This anchor chart is excellent for kindergarten or first grade. In all I made 21 interactive post it note anchor charts for teaching various comprehension strategies. Old, worn out, faded, “ugly” clip art, and **GASP** parts of them were handwritten! Well two weeks later and I finally finished up my set of Interactive Post It Note Anchor Charts. Well, to say the least, they were looking pretty bad. ![]() To be honest, this is one of my favorite units to teach The students always get so excited to listen to the different stories and talk about the beginning, middle, end and story elements. During our literacy time we have been busy learning about beginning, middle, end and story elements. Any good anchor chart must be set out efficiently and use elements like font, color and shape to organize the content. Story Maps to Practice Beginning, Middle, End. This can be something like: ‘compare’ means to look for similarities and ‘contrast’ is to look for what is different. One of the things that I share in that session are some anchor charts that I made for teaching reading comprehension. A good compare and contrast anchor chart should make it absolutely clear what the two ideas mean. Two weeks ago I started revamping some of my older presentations when I decided that my comprehension session needed a serious facelift. Just had a “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” experience.
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