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Mastering Anchor Charts for Effective Teaching

Join us to explore and utilize various anchor charts for enhancing learning outcomes in the classroom. Discover the benefits, implementation strategies, and implications for Common Core teaching. Engage with interactive visual tools to support comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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Mastering Anchor Charts for Effective Teaching

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  1. Chart Your Course: Navigating Informational Text & Literature Fellow Buccaneers: Shanita Anderson, LaTonya McNeill, & Kewanda Merritt

  2. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to … understand the benefits of anchor charts interact with standards-based visual charts know how to implement charts into the classroom

  3. Today’s Agenda: Brief definition of Anchor Charts Explore & Utilize the following Charts: Textual Evidence Comparing Texts with a Twist Chart Implications Treasure Hunt

  4. Word Splash Anchor Charts

  5. What are Anchor Charts? • Interactive visual TOOLS that make learning visible and permanent • Build on prior learning • Provide visual cues to develop independence • 4 Types of Types: Ritual, Toolbox, Classification, Interactive (Debbie Miller, 2002)

  6. What does this mean for Common Core teaching and learning?

  7. Anchor Standard: R.CCR.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from text. Captain Hook

  8. Could the benefits of being a pirate outweigh the risks? What I know: What are the connotations of the word pirate? Standard 1: Textual Evidence Would you consider being a pirate an equal employment opportunity? Why or why not?

  9. “Ten Facts About Pirates” Read the article titled – “Ten Facts About Pirates” • like a Private Investigator • Locate evidence to support and/or refute your responses to the guiding questions regarding “Pirates” • Write your supporting statements on a sticky note and place outside the what you know graphic

  10. What I know: What proof from the text helps to support or refutes what we know? What proof from the text helps to support or refutes what we know? Standard 1: Textual Evidence

  11. Chart Implications • If used for pre-reading activity, ensure one’s audience • has ample knowledge of content in order to be able to • share “stuff in your head” • Guiding questions were provided to focus student thought and discussion; make guiding questions specific to the standard(s) being taught • Can be used during instruction to bring attention to • specific information; use after instruction as formative • assessment Any other ideas?

  12. BLACKBEARD

  13. Anchor Standard: R.CCR.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Captain Walker D. Plank

  14. Informational Elements Review

  15. Word Choice /Connotation Purpose Text Features Details Viewpoint/Bias Text #1: Informational Elements Text #2: Which perspective do you prefer/agree? Why? What textual evidence supports your decision? Comparing Texts

  16. Tale of Two Texts

  17. Word Choice /Connotation Purpose Text Features Details Viewpoint/Bias 1 2 3 4 5 Text #1: Text #2: Which perspective do you prefer/agree? Why? What textual evidence supports your decision? Comparing Texts

  18. Chart Implications • May use chart to compare mediums (i.e. script vs. audio) • Students may compare their own writing to an informational text with the same claim checking for style, structure, supporting evidence, etc. • Due to the fact that one must use higher order thinking skills, the teacher should initially model the thinking process when introducing this chart Any other ideas?

  19. Group -- Think -- Share

  20. Questions? Concerns? Discussion?

  21. Shared Strategies & Resources • Planted Participants or Planted Questions “plant” questions, names, etc. around the classroom to model rigorous questioning and to encourage student participation • Tulare ELA CCSS Bookmarks (K-12) http://www.tcoe.org/ERS/CCSS/ELA/Resources.shtm • Kagan Team Mats (set of 10 - $14)

  22. Captains of the Literacy High Seas Linder, Rozlyn Chart Sense: Common Sense Charts to Teach 3-8 Informational Text and Literature. Atlanta, Georgia: The Literacy Initiative, LLC Harvey, Stephanie, and Goudvis, Anne. Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding Portland, Maine: Stenhouse, 2000. Miller, Debbie. Reading with Meaning. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse, 2002 Hoyt, Linda. Spotlight on Comprehension: Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005

  23. Product Details • Paperback: 182 pages • Publisher: Literacy Initiative, The (February 2, 2014) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0988950510 • ISBN-13: 978-0988950511

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