Book Talk Tuesday: isleREAD Book Recommendations

Need a new book to read for fun?

Have a book you think others would love to read? 

Check out and add to the #isleREAD Book Recommendations Padlet!!! 

Anchor Charts

My favorite definition of an anchor chart comes from this Learning for Justice. "An anchor chart is an artifact of classroom learning. Like an anchor, it holds students' and teachers' thoughts, ideas and processes in place. Anchor charts can be displayed as reminders of prior learning and built upon over multiple lessons." 

Anchor charts are a fun, visual reminder for the students who, quite frankly, haven't learned what you are teaching yet. They are a scaffold to support a student who needs the reminder of what you are teaching. In fact, it's one of my favorite teaching tools to display around the room. 

Want to learn more about the BEST way to use them in your classroom for EVERYTHING?? Check out this post by We Are Teachers. Since this is a post about favorites I guess, my favorite line is, "It’s very important not to create the entire poster ahead of time. They are best used as an interactive tool." When created with the kids, they view it as their own and will actually use it rather than that grammar poster you bought and displayed. No offense. They are just not my favorite. ;)