Anchor Charts for Reading

Anchor charts for teaching reading strategies and skills - tons of ideas for making them interactive, hands-on, and engaging! Teach point of view, author's purpose, context clues, making inferences, and more with these handy charts. #anchorchart
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My 5 Favorite Fall Read Aloud Books with Lesson Ideas
You'll love these 5 fall read aloud books which include lesson ideas and resources. Read alouds are taken care of this fall season! Perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade interactive read alouds! Teach vocabulary, context clues, predictions, inferences, sequencing, visualizing and more with these mentor texts!
My 5 Favorite Fall Read Aloud Books with Lesson Ideas
Bats by Gail Gibbons is a nonfiction book that teaches kids about different kinds of bats, their habits, where they live, and why they are important to our world. This book is perfect for exploring vocabulary and context clues including making inferences about the meaning of words, suggesting synonyms and antonyms, and providing opportunities to use new vocabulary in a sentence.
My 5 Favorite Fall Read Aloud Books with Lesson Ideas
Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant is a gentle story about a scarecrow who stands quietly in a field, watching over everything around him, and finding joy in the beauty of nature. This book lends itself well to exploring visualization with your kids as the story invites readers to take on the emotions of the scarecrow and see the world from its perspective.
My 5 Favorite Fall Read Aloud Books with Lesson Ideas
Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson is a book that shows how a tiny pumpkin seed grows into a big pumpkin, teaching kids about the life cycle of a pumpkin in a fun and simple way. This book is perfect for focusing on fall-related vocabulary and sequencing. To teach vocabulary with Pumpkin Circle, I love to make a semantic map! As we read, we notice new words and add them, making connections between words that make sense to the kids, and categorizing them.
My 5 Favorite Fall Read Aloud Books with Lesson Ideas
The Widow's Broom - making inferences with this fall mentor text
5 Fabulous Figurative Language Activities
Five fabulously fun figurative language activities including metaphors, similes, idioms, and onomatopoeia.
TEKS Vocabulary Word Wall Cards for Fifth Grade
This TEKS Word Wall is a bright and purposeful addition to your Texas fifth grade classroom! Every one of the TEKS is included, and each word wall card includes a student-friendly definition, TEKS # and a picture to help students remember the meaning of the word! Grow your fifth graders' academic vocabulary about genre, reading strategies, responding to reading, word study, and more with this set of 364 vocabulary cards! #texasteacher #TEKSwordwall #teachingvocabulary
Teaching Visualization - Reading Comprehension Strategy
These resources make teaching reading visualizing easy! Graphic organizers, mentor texts, a hands-on anchor chart activity, and handouts help your students practice visualizing so they can improve their reading comprehension!
TEKS Vocabulary Word Wall Cards for Fifth Grade
This TEKS Word Wall is a bright and purposeful addition to your Texas fifth grade classroom! Every one of the TEKS is included, and each word wall card includes a student-friendly definition, TEKS # and a picture to help students remember the meaning of the word! Grow your fifth graders' academic vocabulary about genre, reading strategies, responding to reading, word study, and more with this set of 364 vocabulary cards! #texasteacher #TEKSwordwall #teachingvocabulary
Better Reading Responses in Upper Elementary
Teach your students to write better reading responses with these three tips! Students can write responses about their independent reading or about assigned reading. They also work well as a literacy center! These three tips will help you model a better response, hold students accountable for better writing, and prepare them for their response as they're reading!
Visualizing During Reading: mentor texts, anchor chart, and strategy
This easy three-step process is a great way to teach kids to visualize during reading! 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will listen to a mentor text read aloud, pause to make a quick sketch of the details they visualized, and write a simple statement about what they pictured. Improve reading comprehension with this visualization strategy and anchor chart! Graphic organizers included.
Reading Responses Bundle: Fiction + Nonfiction + Poetry + Drama
Your kids will write better, more organized reading responses with these handouts! Each response has a graphic organizer at the top focused on the details they need to look for and record. Then they use the sentence starters to write a paragraph! Reading responses are included for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama! Perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade!
Visualizing During Reading: mentor texts, anchor chart, and strategy
This easy three-step process is a great way to teach kids to visualize during reading! 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will listen to a mentor text read aloud, pause to make a quick sketch of the details they visualized, and write a simple statement about what they pictured. Improve reading comprehension with this visualization strategy and anchor chart! Graphic organizers included.
Making inferences: Anchor chart and graphic organizer
This post explains five steps to teaching students to make inferences! Instead of jumping right to paper and pencil, start with a hands-on, engaging activity, and build the inferences anchor chart. Give kids guided practice with questions that help them think about the details and text evidence, and make an inference that makes sense! Task cards are great for practice until kids are ready to apply it in their own reading. Perfect for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade!
Metacognition: a hands-on lesson for monitoring comprehension in reading
This post explains how I teach metacognition: helping students think about their reading comprehension. Get two anchor charts to help you introduce our reading thoughts and the step-by-step lesson idea for introducing metacognition. Help students monitor their reading comprehension with these activities! Perfect for a back to school lesson in third, fourth, or fifth grade!