Anchor Charts for 1st to 5th Grade Teachers: Customizable Colorful Charts to Improve Classroom Management and Foster Student Achievement

By Chynell Moore

Create a more inspiring classroom with amazing anchor charts.

Filled with 100 ready-to-use, fun and helpful anchor charts, this handbook for elementary teachers is packed with examples for science, reading, math, classroom management, and so much more. There are easy-to-follow tips and time-saving tricks for taking your charts to the next level. Whether you’re creating your very first chart or looking for fresh ideas, there’s something for everyone, including:

• Eye-Catching Designs
• Helpful Ideas
• Clever Visuals
• Friendly Facts

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781612438474

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Text and photographs copyright © 2018 Chynell Moore except as noted below. Design and concept copyright © 2018 Ulysses Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized duplication in whole or in part or dissemination of this edition by any means (including but not limited to photocopying, electronic devices, digital versions, and the internet) will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Project editor: Claire Sielaff

Editor: Renee Rutledge

Proofreader: Shayna Keyles

Front cover design: Justin Shirley

Cover artwork: anchor charts © Chynell Moore; cork © piotr_pabijan/shutterstock.com (front) and © taviphoto/shutterstock.com (back)

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Interior artwork: see page 150

IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: This book is independently authored and published and no sponsorship or endorsement of this book by, and no affiliation with, any trademarked brands or products mentioned or pictured within is claimed or suggested. All trademarks that appear in this book belong to their respective owners and are used here for informational purposes only. The author and publisher encourage readers to patronize the quality brands and products pictured and mentioned in this book.

To God who strengthens me,

My husband, Robert, who supports me,

And to my loving parents, who are my biggest fans. Thank you for your unconditional love.

Table of Contents

Welcome!

Getting Started

What Are Anchor Charts?

How Do I Use Anchor Charts?

Basic Elements of Anchor Charts

Materials for a Basic Anchor Chart

Beyond the Basics

Word Art

Tracing

Clip Art

Drawing Pictures

Doodling

The Perfect Pair: Anchor Charts and Interactive Notebooks

Anchor Chart Q&A

Anchor Charts for Classroom Management

Hand Signals

What to Do If You Are Absent

Glue Use

Exit Ticket

How to Trade a Pencil

Classroom Morning Routine

Voice Level Expectations

Catch-Up Work

MUSTard (Must Do) Work

Homework Heroes

Best Times to Use the Restroom

Blurts Hurt

First–Then

Reflect & Respond

Line Up

Morning Meeting

How to Answer the Phone

Attention Getters

Supply List

Book Hospital

Parking Lot

Lunch Expectations

Technology Rules

Anchor Charts for Classroom Community

Peanut Butter & Jealous

What Have We Achieved

Throw Kindness Like Confetti

First Day of School Feelings

Problem-Solving

Growth Mindset Classroom Contract

Greetings

Quoted & Noted 1

Quoted & Noted 2

Squad Goals

Anchor Charts for Reading

Check the Weather Strategy

Character Attributes

Just Like… Character Connections

#2words

Determining Importance

Book a Day

Let’s Bake a Retell Cake!

Yummy Summary

Author’s Purpose P.I.E

Readers Set Goals

Prose

Inferring

Point of View

Reading Is Thinking

SWBS

Movie vs. Text

Drawing Conclusions

Emotional Rollercoaster

What Goes in My Reading Bin?

Anchor Charts for Word Study

What Is a Word Sort?

Long A & Short A Word Sort

Long E & Short E Word Sort

Long I & Short I Word Sort

Long O & Short O Word Sort

Long U & Short U Word Sort

Vowel Teams Word Sort

Ar, Air, Are Word Sort

Er, Ear, Eer Word Sort

Ir, Ire, Ier Word Sort

Or, Ore, Oar Word Sort

Ur, Ure, Ur-e Word Sort

Oi, Oy Word Sort

Oo, Oo Word Sort

-Ge, -Dge Word Sort

Ow, Ou Word Sort

Aw, Au Word Sort

Word Hunt

Rulebreaker Jail

Word Study Workshop Routine

Anchor Charts for Math

Columns & Rows

Equal Groups Vocabulary

Sweet Graphs

Perimeter Key Term

Let’s Graph

Ways to Represent Fractions

Addition & Subtraction with Regrouping

Place Value Vocabulary

Anchor Charts for Science

Biotic & Abiotic

O-W-L Graphic Organizer

Commensalism Science Vocabulary

Mutualism Science Vocabulary

Symbiosis Science Vocabulary

Order of the Planets in Our Solar System

Sound: Changing Pitch

Animal Facts

K-W-L

Earth’s Rotation

Earth’s Revolution

Calculating Speed

Force & Motion

The Sun & Other Stars

Herbivores, Carnivores, & Omnivores

Observing Sun Paths

The Can Have Are

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Classifying Animals

Food Chain

Resources

Artwork Credits

About the Author

Welcome!

I am so honored to share my passion for anchor charts with you. Anchor charts have been at the heart of my classroom since my first year of teaching in 2011. They bring my classroom to life. To me, walking into a classroom filled with anchor charts is like walking into a home filled with photographs. Photos document the memories the family has shared together—vacations, celebrations, achievements, and moments of pure joy. For a classroom, anchor charts document the memories of significant lessons, strategies that mold students into stronger readers and writers, and summaries of books we’ve read together and the lively discussions that followed afterward. As a teacher, anchor charts have become a hobby of mine, just as lettering, drawing, or coloring might be hobbies for others.

I wrote this book for two types of teachers: those who absolutely hate their handwriting and drawing talents and think they could never create the beautiful anchor charts they see on the internet and on other classroom walls, as well as anchor chart junkies who are looking to fuel their addiction with the inspiration found throughout this book. No matter which category you fall into, I hope this book gets your courage and creative juices flowing enough to put the book down and start creating!

Getting Started

What Are Anchor Charts?

When you hear the term anchor charts, do you think about a ship’s anchor? If you do, then you’re on to something. Anchor charts help make learning stick just like ship anchors keep the ship from floating away. They are effective because they are not just a poster on the wall, but charts that students create with their teachers. As coauthors, students can recall sitting on the carpet, raising their hands to add their thoughts, and their teacher writing it on the chart, and they will be able to bring back the memory of what learning occurred