Reading response anchor chart

Over the years, I have created dozens of anchor charts in my classroom. I am a huge proponent of creating anchor charts with my students, and I strongly believe that the perfect anchor chart isn't always pretty. The posts below feature many of my anchor charts.

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

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R.A.C.E your written responses classroom anchor chart.

Anchor charts and practice activities that teach students to restate the question, PQA, or Put the Question in the Answer.

My new anchor chart for teaching my 2nd graders how to answer reading response questions!

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We as teachers know that reading at home is crucial to becoming a better reader.If you’re like me, you have used one of these. I used a reading log like this for years and didn’t think twice about it. However, I did think it was interesting that most of my students read exactly 30 minutes […]

It is important that you use the first few weeks of reading to launch your workshop. One thing that I like to do during this time is create reading workshop anchor charts. Creating anchor charts for reading workshop is an important part of instruction. Reading workshop expectations anchor charts can be prepared ahead of time but students should have an active role it its creation. Click the pin to see 5 anchor charts to launch reading workshop…