Sample Anchor Charts Template

ANCHOR CHARTS

My fourth grade team and I use anchor charts ALL the time as we introduce new literacy concepts to our

students. The walls start out bare at the beginning of the year, but do not stay that way for long! We create these WITH

the students during an introductory lesson or over the course of several lessons. They serve as a wonderful display of

our thinking, as well as terrific reminders for students of what we have learned and key vocabulary they need when

writing or thinking about that topic. We are doing standards based grading this year, and of course not all students

master all of the learning targets the first time we teach them. These anchor charts serve as wonderful re-teaching tools

--I often refer to them during intervention skill groups with these students. Many of these same students, however, also

We created this anchor chart during a lesson on making

inferences. I brought in an old pink teddy bear and they

had to use evidence + background knowledge to make

inferences about who it belonged to.

This was created during a mini-lesson on Greek and Latin

Word Parts—students were given the words and had to

use what they knew about those words to come up with

what they thought the word part could mean.

These were created over several lessons as we discussed

and read examples of many different poems, dramas, and