Anchor activities

Early finishers need activities so you are not scrambling to find something meaningful for students to work on when they complete work.

Do you look on Pinterest for Anchor Chart ideas and give up at the thought that your Anchor Chart could never look that amazing? It actually doesn’t have to be that difficult to make an amazi…

Check out these great Author's Purpose anchor charts. These simple charts will engage your students while they learn about identifying the author's purpose in nonfiction text. Add these to your lessons and activities to help your students gain mastery!

Here is a prayer activity that older children could do independently to help them think about trusting in God for their strength. It could be used especially if you were exploring stories that involve the sea or storms (e.g the calming of the storm, Paul's shipwreck in Acts 27)! You will need: long and shorter strips of paper, semi circles of paper, hole punch, glue, string, a washing line God as our anchor Anchors keep ships steady in stormy seas. They are strong and stop them from floating…

Anchor activities are an essential to effective classroom management. Read this blog post all about how to use them.

Cause and effect is an essential reading skill that our readers need in able to adequately and effectively comprehend. It helps students understand how one event connects or leads to the next event. I thought it would be so fun to give my cause and effect resource a little makeover with a fun newsroom theme. Students will be reporters to report on the cause and effect relationships in the story. They will cover what happened (THE EVENT) and what made that event happen (THE CAUSE). These…

This resource teaches kids how to produce and expand simple sentences into compound ones with a fun winter theme. This grammar activity is so much fun. You will get a compound sentence anchor chart, snowman craft and winter themed task cards for write the room. This literacy activity is great for literacy centers. Use this language arts resource for guided reading groups, readers workshop or just as a fun winter craft.

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This blog post focuses on how to characters during your story elements unit. Learn how to teach character in your elementary classroom with anchor charts, lessons, read aloud suggestions, and activities.

At you looking for fluency activities for 3rd graders and older students? These activities for your upper elementary classroom are perfect for instruction and intervention to increase fluency. These strategies worked for my students and will work for yours, too! Click to read more and grab an anchor chart freebie, too!