These anchor charts are placed in the front of the classroom to introduce weekly standards and skills.

These charts are also used to go along with student activities.  After introducing a common core standard.  Students use an I DO, WE DO, YOU DO form that is placed in their ELA Notebooks.   Digging deep into each standard has definitely showed a tremendous amount of growth in my students ability to grasp and understand each standard based comprehension questions. 

The forms for 3rd Grade can be seen HERE: I also have 2nd Grade HERE

  

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To make my lesson a little bit more interesting I am incorporating art and more interaction into my whole group lessons.  We read the story selection of the week.  My students wrote on their post its the character trait exhibited by the main character and an example from the story of how or when they exhibited that trait.  They walked up to my rolling cart and posted their traits next to the character.

This is an example of a students work.

I then displayed their work around the classroom.                                                                                 

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Teaching how to identify the central message or the lesson in a folk tale can be difficult for many students.
 I used an anchor chart to introduce the story of the week and to identify the central message.  For the rest of the week I continued adding to the chart based on read alouds.

I  also had my students practice this skill with other books in a center. 



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