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Writing Workshop: Everything You Need To Know To Create an Anchor Chart

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“I don’t have room for all these anchor charts in my classroom.”

Does this sound familiar?

I often found myself repeating this over and over again as a classroom teacher. And then, I’d wonder:

             What kind of anchor chart should I make?              How can I elevate the level of my anchor charts?             How long should I keep an anchor chart up?

Keep reading for the answers if you’ve ever asked yourself these questions.

Anchor charts are an essential tool used to support instruction.

As you teach, you use your anchor charts to capture strategies that students can refer back to during mini-lessons , small groups, and independent writing time . Anchor charts also help build a culture of literacy by making the thinking visible as well as supporting all different learners within your classroom (i.e., visual, auditory, ELLs).

Anchor charts are typically created in real-time with students during a mini-lesson. They can display both student and teacher thinking by including teacher and student writing samples.

Then, you can display them on the wall for students to refer back to. Make sure to update them throughout the school year. Read more below about the many different anchor charts you can create to enhance your teaching and student learning.

Types of Anchor Charts

1. Procedural Anchor Charts

Use procedural anchor charts to highlight routines and systems within your Writing Workshop block. You’ll likely introduce these charts at the beginning of the school year when launching the workshop. You can create a chart for each new routine or system you want to teach or revisit old ones that need extra practice throughout the school year. You can use the anchor chart in the image for primary grades (K-2) to establish a Writing Workshop set-up routine.

2. Writing Behaviors Charts

Writing behavior anchor charts highlight behaviors we want our writers to build into habits. As your writers become more sophisticated throughout the school year, you want to make sure that your behavior charts match the level of your writers. You can use the anchor chart below to help establish stamina. Students can visibly see their goal as well as their progress as they work on building their stamina.

EXPERT TIP: Once your students build a writing habit, you can retire the anchor chart.

3. Individual Strategy Charts

Individual strategy charts focus on a single writing strategy. They aim to break down the strategy into clear, bite-sized steps that you’ll model during the teach section of a mini-lesson. Each unit of study cycles through the writing process (generating, choosing/developing, planning, drafting, editing, revising/elaborating).

Along the way, you introduce your writers to different strategies within each part of the writing process. The right anchor chart focuses on the writing process’s generating portion. It introduces a single strategy students can use when generating ideas for a true story. While you teach using your anchor chart, it’s key that the words you use match what’s on the anchor chart. Example: Saying true stories on your chart but using the term ‘small moments’ while you demonstrate.

4. Menu of Strategies Charts

If you’re introducing several additional strategies within that same part of the writing process, you can build a menu of strategies anchor chart. Unlike a zoomed-in strategy chart, a menu of strategies chart has several methods to select from. These charts give students the power to make their own decisions as to which one they want to use in their writing. The anchor chart to the left has five different strategies that

students can choose from when generating ideas for a personal narrative.

EXPERT TIP: Once you’ve introduced a strategy to add to the menu chart, you can retire the individual strategy chart.

5. Process Charts

Process charts are an excellent way to set your students up for independence by supporting them in understanding where to go next in their writing. These types of charts highlight a certain part of the writing process within a genre and can be displayed throughout a unit of study.

EXPERT TIP: Make small samples of anchor charts for students to keep in their writing folders.

6. Characteristics of the Genre Charts

Genre charts highlight characteristics of a genre, such as topics, text features, structure, tone, and author’s purpose. You can make these charts during the immersion week when highlighting craft moves and techniques of a specific genre. The anchor chart to the right highlights the characteristics of narrative writing.

7. Exemplar Piece Charts

This chart is a key lever during immersion week. You can also create it with your writer’s input. It highlights the characteristics of a strong writing piece. The chart is a living, breathing document which students can revise as they learn more about the genre and develop their level of sophistication. The anchor chart below highlights certain characteristics of an informational writing piece, such as catchy subtitles, pictures, and captions.

EXPERT TIP: While students are editing and revising, it can be helpful to reintroduce this chart and remind them what they can approximate from other writers!

8. Checklists Charts

Editing checklist charts help students monitor their progress during the revision and editing process. Make copies so students can refer back to them in their folders. Often, students will be in different stages of the writing process, so it’s helpful to have something to reference. These charts can be revised as students learn more throughout the unit and learn more sophisticated skills.

Expert Tips for Effective Anchor Charts

There are many different ways to improve your anchor charts. Below are three ways you can elevate your anchor charts.

1. Add visuals: One way to raise the level of your charts and support your learners is to add visuals. This is essential for our primary readers and writers to be more independent when using charts. These visuals ideally match your teacher demonstration piece. For example, if you are writing about using a big feeling, such as being excited to generate small moments you can write about, include a visual of those feelings on the anchor chart. You can also include drawings, print out clipart, or add photographs of your student doing the steps or process.

2. Include examples from mentor texts: You can include examples from mentor texts that have already been introduced and read to your class. These examples can be photocopied and placed directly on the chart.

3. Include writing samples demonstrating the writing strategy: Writing samples can be either teacher or student created. These can be used on anchor charts to show a model example of the strategy.

Anchor Chart Maintenance

Anchor charts are most helpful when students see and use them! Make sure you have a designated place in your room to display your workshop charts. It’s useful when all writing charts are together in one area. When using anchor charts during Writing Workshop, make sure to display them in a clutter-free space in your gathering area.

Once you have introduced your chart during your mini-lesson, you should be referencing it consistently throughout and every time you state the teaching point. Following your mini-lesson, keep the anchor chart visible for all students to reference as they work independently. This also allows you to reference the charts while conferring, in small groups, and during partnership work. You can also refer to the chart at the end of the workshop during the teaching share.

Decide if you’ll display or retire the chart by surveying your writers. If you retire a chart and you have the space, keep it. If not, take a picture of it. If you continue to display the chart, place it in a clutter-free, prominent spot designated for workshop charts. You can create smaller versions for students to put in their folders or keep them at the writing center.

EXPERT TIP: A great way to know when to retire a chart is to survey your students and ask, “who uses this chart?” If a small number of students use the chart, you can make smaller individualized copies for those students and take down the original.

Whether you’re just getting started with creating anchor charts or have been doing them for a while, hopefully, some of these ideas might be helpful for you as you think about which type of anchor charts you can make, how to elevate your anchor charts, and how long you should keep an anchor chart up.

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• Setting Up a Writing Center: 8 Basics
• The Writing Process for Primary Grades
• Supporting English Language Learners in Writing Workshop

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Writing Anchor Charts For Writing Workshop

Launching writing workshop or even just setting up your writing block can feel overwhelming, but with the help of these anchor charts, you’ll feel confident and prepared to set your students up for writing success this year.   These writing workshop anchor charts and posters are perfect for back to school and will help your students remember all the important writing habits and behaviors they should practice this year.

This set of anchor charts will be your teacher bestie when it comes to launching writing workshop and setting up your writing block. These posters describe and explain key writing habits and behaviors you want your students to embrace. From building the writing process, to collecting ideas, to independent writing to peer review, these anchor charts will help you teach all these key back-to-school writing lessons. With the help of these posters, students will understand exactly what they need to do to become successful writers in your class this year.

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Launching writing workshop or even just setting up your writing block can feel overwhelming, but with the help of these anchor charts, you’ll feel confident and prepared to set your students up for writing success this year.   These writing workshop anchor charts and posters are perfect for back to school and will help your students remember all the important writing habits and behaviors they should practice this year.

And let’s be honest… back to school can be a stressful and busy season for teachers. Having this set of ready-to-print anchor charts will take the guesswork out of your first few weeks of writing lessons. You’ll be able to print out the anchor chart you need for your lesson each day and will be set for the first three weeks of school!

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET:

In this resource, you’ll get 20 anchor charts to help you launch writing workshop. The posters are formatted in the following ways:

• Half-page anchor charts – perfect for students journals
• Full page anchor charts – works great for whole group lessons
• Digital version – created using Google Slides
• FIll-in version – available for both the half-page and full-page versions and are great if you want your students to take notes during the lesson

LOVED BY BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: 

Your students will love having access to these anchor charts during the year. They won’t feel the pressure to remember all the different parts of the writing workshop because they know they can look back in their journals anytime they need a reminder.

You’ll love these anchor charts because they have easy-to-read font and are written with clear and concise language. Your students will understand the objective of each lesson with these anchor charts.

So many upper elementary teachers love these anchor charts because they aren’t cluttered with excess clipart or fonts that are too “cutesy”.

And, you have options. You can choose to print them in half pages for students to glue in their journals… or you can share them with your students in Google Classroom… or you can give students the fill-in version so they can take notes during your lessons. You can pick the version that will work for you and your students.

Prep is quick and easy…  Just print the anchor chart option you want to use before your writing lesson and you’re ready to go.

ANCHOR CHART TITLES INCLUDE: 

• All About Writer’s Workshop
• Collecting Ideas
• Habits of a Strong Writer
• Independent Writing
• Looks Like/Sounds Like
• Peer Review
• Revise vs. Edit
• Sharing Our Writing
• Show Not Tell
• Story Telling
• Strong Listeners
• Student and Teacher Roles During Writing Workshop
• Think I’m Done, Now What?
• Using Mentor Texts
• What do Writers Writer?
• Why Writers Write
• Writer’s Notebook
• Writing For Your Audience
• Writing Process

HOW TO USE THESE CHARTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

• Use them at the start of the school year to help launch Writing Workshop.
• Use them throughout the year to review key writing habits and behaviors.
• Use as a model for your whole group lessons.
• Give students a copy to glue in their journals.
• Send home a copy to parents to keep them informed.
• Include a copy with your lesson plans to show your administrators what you’re teaching.
• Put posters on a ring or in a binder as a reference for small groups or workstations.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved using these as a resource during our writers workshop. They helped students stay focused on the lesson.” – Sarah H.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was a very helpful resource in distance learning, but I also think it is going to be equally as helpful in-person. These are helpful to have on hand digitally and can easily be printed out. Thank you for a wonderful, helpful way to make learning more accessible in these trying times. :)” – Jaclyn Parolin

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Writers’ Workshop is a great method of laying out your writing, and these posters really supported a clear structure to the system. Thank you!” – Jeanine F.

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When I was offered my first teaching position I did three things: 1. I jumped up and down. 2. I bought some “teacher” clothes. 3. I went to the teacher supply store and bought a bunch of decorations and posters. Then I took those decorations and posters to my classroom in my new teacher shirt and pants and began decorating room 29. Once school began, I soon discovered my cute posters weren’t being used by my students. Didn’t they know how useful they were? I mean who wouldn’t love houses with multiplication facts running up and down them? Eventually I learned these premade posters weren’t all they were cracked up to be, which led me to creating my own anchor charts.

We’ve all made anchor charts. And many teachers make them in different ways. Sometimes anchor charts are made ahead of time. Maybe they’re made while the kids watch and plenty of teachers have their students help them make the anchor charts. Whichever you choose, it’s important to make charts you will actually refer to and charts students will find useful. Here is a great article you can check out to learn more about anchor charts.

Writing workshop has many components and requires some charts for students to refer to. Eventually, you’ll be able to remove some of the charts as students begin to make the parts of writing workshop a routine.

Writing Workshop Structure

The best way to introduce writing workshop to your students is to tell them what to expect in this writing workshop outline. Kids love knowing where we’re going and how long until we get there. This writing workshop description explains to students what their job entails and what your job will be. It shows them the writing workshop structure and in the order you’ll be engaging in each piece. You might want to add times to the anchor chart for the kids that need even more information about what to expect. If you are in need of more information about writing workshop, read Writing Workshop for Beginners , which will provide you with some extra support.

Getting Ready Anchor Chart

This, by far, is the most important anchor chart to start writing workshop. The “getting ready” chart sets the students up for the mini lesson and prepares them for writing. This post, Procedures and Routines for Writing Workshop , provides some writing workshop tips for incorporating these procedures.

In this chart students take out their writing folder, read the book they’re working on, and go to the meeting area. Having them read their piece before the mini lesson, jogs their memories of what they are writing about.

When I’m Finished Anchor Chart

“Done!” Teachers’ number one least favorite word. Ugh. Before you have kids telling you they’re finished and asking what to do next, tell them what to do. As a matter of fact, have an anchor chart for that. Review this chart often, especially at the beginning of the school year. When a student ask what to do next, just point to the chart.

An Anchor Chart to Wrap Up Writing Workshop

The share is the last part of writing workshop and as precious as this time can be, it can also be a challenge. Having students share their work is a great way for students to learn from their peers. But when you have a student share that isn’t prepared, you lose the rest of the class. This is why the number one procedure for share time is to have the student sharing practice reading his/her writing. Once the student is ready to share, the others are listening and ready to retell what they heard in the student’s book. Then students will offer feedback, which is another anchor chart all together!

Teacher and student made anchor charts are valuable when referred to throughout the year. They provide information for students and help them become more self reliant. Anchor charts for writing workshop are also helpful for teachers in that they hold us responsible and remind us of the procedures. There are plenty more writing workshop charts you can create for your classroom, but here are a few to give you an idea of what they could look like. The posters don’t need to be fancy, they just need to be used.

If you’re in need of ideas for keeping your writing workshop organized, I have a plenty of ideas for you in Classroom Organization for a Successful Writing Workshop . These tips along with useful anchor charts will set you up for writing workshop success!

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40 Must-Have Anchor Charts for Teaching Writing of All Kinds

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When it comes to writing, many kids struggle to get their ideas down on paper. That’s why we’ve rounded up all the best writing anchor charts, to help your students master narrative, transitions, punctuation, editing, theme, and so much more! Try some of these ideas in your classroom to give your kids the writing support they need.

1. Why Writers Write

First and second graders will draw inspiration from this fun-filled anchor chart about why we write. Make this chart applicable to older students by expanding on each aspect with a specific audience or goal. “To share experiences” can become “to share experiences with friends, in a postcard, or with readers of a memoir.”

Source: Cara Carroll

2. Expanding Sentences

Show students how a simple sentence can become a real powerhouse by exploring when, where, how, and why, along with adding adjectives. So powerful!

Source: Upper Elementary Snapshots/Expanding Sentences

3. Personal Narrative

Personal narrative is a style that all students practice in elementary school, and writing anchor charts can help keep them on track. Visit the link below for great worksheets to use with your students to prepare them to write their personal narratives.

Source: Rachel’s Reflections

4. Hook Your Reader

Want to know how to draw the reader in and make them eager to continue? You need a hook! Teach students how to grab a reader’s attention from the get-go, pulling them in with facts, questions, or even sound effects.

Source: Little Minds at Work

5. Point of View

Learn the differences between first person (I), second person (you), and third person (narrator), and talk about when each type is effective.

Source: Oh Boy … It’s Farley!

6. Organized Paragraph

Use a stoplight to help early elementary students understand and write clear paragraphs. As students are editing their work, have them read with green, yellow, and red pencils in hand so they can see how their paragraphs are hooking and engaging readers. See a video of this chart in action here.

7. Practicing Transitions

There are more stoplight writing anchor charts, and this one is perfect for helping students learn and practice their transition words. Draw the stoplight first and invite students to help come up with different words. Then encourage students to put the transition words into practice.

Source: A Happy, Hungry, Healthy Girl

8. Author’s Perspective

Sometimes, an author’s opinion comes out strongly in their writing, even if they don’t state it up front. Use this chart to help students find the clues to an author’s perspective.

Source: Crafting Connections/Author’s Perspective

9. Author’s Purpose Pie

This is a quick and easy anchor chart to help students see different types of writing. It’ll also help them do a quick check to make sure their writing aligns.

Source: Literacy Ideas

10. Dig Deeper

Keep going! Sometimes it’s hard to express what you mean by certain writing and revision requests, and writing anchor charts can show exactly what you mean. Now students can get a good look at what it means to dig deeper.

Source: Pinterest

11. Alternatives to “Said”

If your students are learning about writing dialogue, an anchor chart like this could really come in handy. Encourage students to try other ways to have their characters respond.

Source: ESL Amplified

12. Understanding Character

Before you can write about character, you first have to understand it. This anchor chart will help your young writers understand the difference between inside and outside characteristics.

Source: Teacher Trap

13. Diving Deeper Into Character

Now that your students understand the difference between inside and outside characteristics, dive deeper into describing a specific character. This anchor chart is a wonderful idea because students can write their idea(s) on a sticky note and then add it.

Source: Crafting Connections/Teach and Task Lessons

14. Six Traits of Writing

This anchor chart is jam-packed with things to help fourth- and fifth-grade writers remember the six traits of writing. Use the chart as a whole-class reference or laminate it to use in small groups. When it’s laminated, students can check off each aspect they’ve included in their own writing. Meaningful dialogue? Check! Problem and solution? Check!

Source: Working 4 the Classroom

15. Writing Realistic Fiction

This anchor chart reminds upper elementary students how to create realistic stories. It really walks your students through the process, so they have all the elements they need to create their own stories.

Source: Two Writing Teachers/Realistic Fiction

16. Sequence of Events

Help early elementary students stay organized with an anchor chart that’s focused on order-of-events language. Tactile learners can write their first drafts on sentence strips and use this format to put the events in order before they transcribe their work onto writing paper.

Source: Life in First Grade

17. Informational Text Structures

Focus upper elementary students on the most important aspects of informational writing while keeping them organized. This chart could be used to support paragraph writing or essays.

Source: Teaching With a Mountain View/Informational Text Structures

18. OREO Opinion Writing

This deliciously inspired opinion anchor chart can be used by students in grades 3–5 during writers workshop or when developing an opinion for discussion or debate. To build out student writing, have them “double-stuff” their OREOs with extra E examples. See a video featuring this chart here.

19. Features of a Great Report

Use examples of outstanding student work to make this anchor chart. Keep it relevant by updating the examples with student work throughout the year. In kindergarten, this will also showcase how students move from prewriting and pictures to writing words and sentences.

Source: Joyful Learning in KC

20. Write From the Heart

Sometimes the hardest part about writing is coming up with whom and what you should write about. This is the fun part, though! Use this anchor chart to remind your students that they have lots of good writing options.

Source: First Grade Parade via Cara Carroll

21. Argument Writing

Use this anchor chart with middle schoolers to make sure they’re considering all sides of an argument, not just the one that matters the most to them. One way to adapt this chart, as students develop their understanding of argument, is to write each element—claim, argument, evidence—under a flap that students can lift if they need a reminder.

Source: Literacy & Math Ideas

22. Writing Process

This is an anchor chart you’ll direct your students to again and again. The writing process has several steps, and it’s good to remind students of this so they don’t get frustrated.

Source: What’s Skow-ing On in Fourth Grade?

23. Writing Checklist

For those young writers in your class, these cover the basics in a clear way.

Source: Kindergarten Chaos

24. RACE for Writing

Use the RACE mnemonic when your students are working on persuasive writing. It reminds them to cite their sources and be sure to answer the question being asked.

Source: @mrspuffer

25. Cause and Effect

Cause and effect will always be an essential part of any story. Help your students come up with different scenarios for cause and effect. In many instances, you could have multiples effects, so challenge your students to identify three to four at a time. This will really give them something to write about!

Source: 2nd Grade Superheroes

26. A Strong Lead

This upper-grade anchor chart gives students lots of ways to start their writing. Update it midyear with strong examples of leads that students have written or that they’ve found in books. Students could also copy this chart into their notebooks and keep track of the different ways they’ve started their own writing, seeing if they’ve developed a signature lead.

Source: Miss Klohn’s Classroom

27. Crafting Power Sentences

Inspire students to get crafty and creative with their sentences. Update the moods or keywords with every writing assignment, so students are constantly refining their clauses, verbs, and descriptions.

Source: Teaching My Friends

28. Show, Don’t Tell

“Show, don’t tell” is a cardinal rule of writing. This anchor chart, best for upper elementary writers, can be used to strengthen scenes in fiction and narrative nonfiction works. Build out this chart for middle school writers with additional ideas and more complex emotions.

Source: Upper Elementary Snapshots/Show, Don’t Tell

29. Narrative Organizer

Leave this chart up in your classroom for your students to reference often when they’re writing. It really takes them through creating a successful story.

30. Expository Writing

This chart makes it easy for students to remember key concepts, both with color-coding and simple metaphors. Give them colored pencils and ask them to underline the corresponding sections in their essays.

Source: Adventures of a Future Teacher

31. Peer Editing

Peer editing teaches kids a variety of skills, and not just with writing. They learn to read closely, offer (and accept) useful constructive feedback, and get more comfortable sharing their writing with others. This chart helps kids through the sometimes-challenging process.

Source: Taleof2Teachers

32. Strong Sentences

Get early elementary students to write longer, more descriptive sentences with this chart. Bonus: Use sentence strips to switch out the examples of strong sentences, based on student writing.

Source: The Good Life

33. Internal Story

This chart gives students the language to add their own thoughts to their writing. Modify this chart by highlighting key phrases for students with special needs. Or have students create different thought-bubble icons to represent each internal dialogue sentence starter.

Source: Totally Terrific in Texas

34. Evidence Supported

Upper elementary students will benefit from reminders on how to refer to and cite text evidence. Use this anchor chart during writing and discussion to help connect the language that we use across domains.

Source: History Tech

35. Publishing Guidelines

Kids are often quick to turn in their papers without making sure they’ve included all the necessary requirements (like their names!). Use this chart to remind them about the important things to check for before they hand in their work.

Source: Juice Boxes and Crayolas

36. Figurative Language

As you teach your students about figurative language and how to use it, you’ll want to have examples. This anchor chart dives into five different concepts. Each of these could actually be its own anchor chart. Perhaps have your students come up with examples on sticky notes and then place them on the chart.

Source: Willow Grove Elementary School

37. Forms of Poetry

Introducing poetry types to your students? This anchor chart covers the basics and helps kids remember that not all poetry needs to rhyme.

Source: ELA Anchor Charts

38. CUPS and ARMS

This is a popular method for teaching kids to revise and edit as well as the difference between the two. Simple acronyms keep the key strategies close at hand.

Source: Amy Lemons

39. Spicy Edits

Encourage your students to think of their writing like a recipe, which they can always tweak and improve. Have them choose one element, or “spice,” to add to their work as they revise.

Source: Beyond Zebra/Pinterest

40. Writing Buddies

Sometimes students can get stuck when working with writing buddies, but writing anchor charts can help. This one encourages students to be positive and make good, thoughtful suggestions.

Source: Apostrophe Books Twitter

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9 must make anchor charts for writing.

My first few years of teaching I was “given” writing for my team planning assignment.  After digging my heels in with writing for a few years and in different grade levels, it ignited a love for teaching writing.  I wanted to share with you some of my favorite writing anchor charts that will be WONDERFUL for your students to refer to throughout their time as the blossom into little authors.

My bulletin board below has three anchor charts on it.

• On the left is a printable version of Cara’s anchor chart above.
• In the middle is an absolute favorite writing anchor chart that I would create every year as I taught Kindergarten.  It was so good for them to see the stages of writing and know that we, as a classroom, would be celebrating ALL writing!
• On the right is an anchor chart that we created early on in writer’s workshop.

Finally, this writing anchor chart by The Brown Bag Teacher is fabulous! She models for her students the progression of writing and her expectations! The students are able to look at their writing and compare it to the chart she has provided. This is almost like a first grade version of the writing anchor chart I created above to know that we are all writers!

I hope you are leaving inspired to create more writing anchor charts during your writing lessons for and with your students! If you are looking for anchor charts for math , reading , science , or social studies be sure to check out my posts about those!

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Love this!! Do you have a link to print off the pencil anchor chart that says “what do writers write?” 🙂

Hi Lizzie! I do not. You can search on Cara Carroll’s blog–The First Grade Parade. 🙂 She made it many years ago, I believe!

Fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing!!!! Cintia

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How to Teach Narratives Using Anchor Charts and Mentor Texts

Teaching students how to identify and write personal narratives is something we all do each year. Anchor charts are an effective way to help students learn about this genre. It is easy to incorporate both reading and writing during workshop time. Everything that you need to teach this literacy unit is provided for you. This includes the lessons, mentor texts, anchor charts, student recording sheets, graphic organizers, and independent practice. Let's take a look at reading workshop. Although there are 10 genres available for each grade level, we will be focusing on personal narratives. There are enough lessons to help you successfully teach this unit for an entire month.

How to Begin Teaching Personal Narratives

Whether you are teaching personal narrative or another genre, the format for reading and writing workshop remains the same. All of the lessons follow the format above. Start with an introduction. The next step is to model what you are teaching for the class. You can do this by using the mentor texts that are provided for you in the unit.

Then, invite the students to help you as they are thinking out loud while adding their thoughts to the anchor chart. Next, engage all learners as you have them turn and talk and find more examples to add to the anchor chart. You can have them continue using the mentor text. Finally, the students will be transitioned into independent time. Students will apply the skills that they have just learned by using their own books during independent reading time.

Using Anchor Charts

Anchor charts are a great way to model and display the information you are teaching. Start by writing the mini-lesson objective at the top. You can prepare this step and the categories in advance.

Choose a mentor text. This can either be from one of your own books, or from a mentor text that is provided for you. Read the story to the students. Model for the information from the text that matches the mini-lesson. Record this information on the anchor chart. Next, have volunteers point out other information from the story and record their responses on the anchor chart. Finally, have students work together by using a turn and talk. Using collaboration helps to build confidence with students. Record additional information on the anchor chart.

After students have mastered the mini-lesson, send them off to work on their own. Graphic organizers are provided for students to record the examples that they find from their own personal book boxes. The writing workshop lessons build upon the same mini-lesson taught during reading so that students can apply their learning in their writing.

What's Included in the Personal Narratives Unit?

• 20 reading and 20 writing mini lessons all linked to the  Common Core and TEKS standards!
• Students note-taking pages for all 40 lessons. Perfect to glue into reading and writing notebooks and keep the learning going all year long.
• 20 printable graphic organizers designed specifically for each reading lesson.
• 20 printable think mark graphic organizers for each reading lesson.
• Writing rubrics for grading.
• Writing editing and revising checklists.
• Sample completed anchor charts for several lessons.
• Mentor texts are INCLUDED!  7 2-page original mentor texts with custom illustrations are included to support the reading and writing lessons.
• TONS of teacher pages for organizing, conferencing, assessing, and note-taking.

Looking for Other Genres?

• Historical Fiction
• Informational
• Personal Narrative
• Realistic Fiction
• Traditional Literature

The above lessons are from the 3rd Grade Literacy Units. To see units for other grade levels, click the links below:

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Hi Friends! Today I am coming to you with a simple blog post that is all about passing on what has worked for me to you! We all know how important anchor charts are for our young readers and writers. This year I took what I have learned from Lucy Calkins and Jennifer Serravallo  to create additional anchor charts for my little friends. You can download all of them for FREE below!

I have tried displaying anchor charts in a variety of ways. This year I had three different methods going.

The first was with the large anchor charts that I would create based off of the sticky note suggestions from Lucy Calkins Units of Study. I hung each chart on a ring on my white board on this magnetic curtain rod . It worked perfectly!

For the anchor charts that were not full sized, I either did one of two things. The first thing was to just display it on my white board and take it down when we were done with the topic. The second thing was I printed the charts and put them in these binders for my students that they could prop in front of them like a tent!

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If you have seen my classroom then you will notice that anchor charts are clearly a huge part of my classroom and a great way to support instruction.  I use writing anchor charts to help support younger learners by providing visuals and guides, as they work independently with writing partners, or with the teacher.

What are Writing Anchor Charts?  Essentially, they are visual prompts that provide students with information regarding their prior learning on a given topic.  Anchor charts provide a scaffold to support students during guided practice or independent writing time.  

How can Writing Anchor Charts be used to help your young writers feel successful?  Here are a few anchor chart ideas that I use!

What do you expect?

Our very first anchor chart that we create together is what I expect writers to do when they go off to write independently, with a partner, or with a teacher.  Teaching the writing process steps will help in each and every unit we study during the year.  This is a chart that we create together, as we work to slowly transition from “we do” to “you do”.  

Transitioning from One Genre to the Next

Early learners (Kinders – Second) really struggle shifting from one genre to the next during writing units.  In particular, once they have a firm knowledge in writing about small moments or personal narratives, they struggle with shifting to teaching books that are full of facts.  You might notice they still want to include introductions like,  “One day I saw a spider…”.  Creating a “t-chart” together and talking about the specific differences between the genres, is very useful.  You can point and go back to this same chart throughout the unit to quickly reteach students who still struggle with this concept.  This same chart can be recreated for all genres you teach to provide a smooth transition from one unit to the next.

Step by Step Directions

Many first graders and primary writers just need to know exactly what you want from them. Providing step by step directions for them to follow during independent writing time will be very helpful.  Remember to add visual pictures or clues for younger students who can’t read. It also helps if you focus on ONE step at a time when kicking off the writers workshop.  

Provide Catchy Visuals

Food or snacks will always hit home with most students.  If you can relate a writing process to food, you will find success during writers workshop.  Any mnemonic device tends to stick with students rather than memorizing a set of directions.  We use OREO each time we teach opinion writing as a way to help remember the steps.  Also, providing sentence starters or sentence stems at the bottom of the chart is very helpful for those that need more support.  

From Books to Our Writing

Our final anchor chart type that we use in our classroom is pulled from our observation of books that we read.  We learn about writing even during readers’ workshop.  As we read, we notice craft moves, text features, genre characteristics, etc. and we jot them down on a chart.  This allows higher level learners who are ready for a challenge to try these observations in their own writing.  I might encourage a small group, “ Have you tried adding headings or keywords to this book that you wrote?  Why don’t you give that a try today?” or “Could you include some sort of map to teach us more about your backyard?”.

No matter what type of anchor charts you use for your writers workshop, these visuals can be used to support the development of writing skills, and to bridge the gap between emergent writers to independent writers.  Off you go!  Grab some markers and chart paper and make a few for your classroom.

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When Lucy and her coauthors worked on the Units of Study, they had to make a choice whether to “make shoes that fit—or shoes to grow into.” They chose the latter, writing that curriculum for kids who are growing up within Units of Study reading and writing workshops. This means that each unit assumes students have experienced the unit that came before it. But that, of course, won’t be the case for upper-grade students entering reading and writing workshops for the first time.

• The Up the Ladder books are designed to help classes with upper-grade students who are new to workshop instruction or who are currently working below benchmark levels.
• The units meet students where they are and accelerate the development of their skills in narrative, information, and opinion writing (in the 3 writing units), and fiction and nonfiction reading (in the 2 reading units).
• The Up the Ladder units are designed to be absolutely engaging for students in grades 3 and up, but the primary goal has been to ensure that students make rapid, dramatic progress toward grade-level work.

The Reading & Writing Project staff spent a long time studying how to successfully accelerate children’s growth in reading and writing. They analyzed the progression of skills taught across elementary and middle-school grades, identified the most critical foundational skills, and then devised the Up the Ladder units to give students a clear pathway to support the development of these key skills.

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Writing Units: Narrative, Information, Opinion Reading Units: Fiction, Nonfiction

The Guide orients teachers to the Up the Ladder writing units, providing guidance on the essential principles, methods, and structures of effective writing workshop instruction. Note: available for the Up the Ladder writing units only.

The teaching points for each day’s instruction are illustrated on large-format sticky notes to help teachers create and evolve anchor charts across the units.

The Up the Ladder Reading units come with trade books designed for teachers to use as demonstration texts, modeling skills and strategies taught in the units. Note: available for the Up the Ladder reading units only.

These resources offer teacher, student, and family/caregiver videos. In the student-facing videos, TCRWP staff developers teach each minilessons on camera as "co-teachers," freeing classroom teachers up for live conversations, small group work, and more.

For more information, download the series overview!

Who should choose the Up the Ladder Units?

• Teachers whose students are new to reading and writing workshop
• Teachers who want to help students accelerate their progress
• Teachers who want to give their students a refresher in reading and writing workshop fundamentals

Note that Up the Ladder units are not meant to be an alternative to the core Units of Study, but rather a ramp to accelerate kids to the grade-level work they will do in those units.

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• Up the Ladder Writing Units — grades 3-6
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Teacher Truth- I used to despise teaching Writer’s Workshop. I understood the structure of the workshop model and the focus of each grading period, however, I didn’t really know WHAT to teach each day during my mini-lessons. Fast forward a couple of years, and I had an amazing opportunity to visit an amazing teacher’s classroom and observe her in action and I fell in love with her writing instruction! And then the next year, my amazing team and I decided to each tackle one subject and share our plans. I chose writing (even though it still wasn’t my favorite) so I could spend more time learning about teaching writing and *hopefully* fall in love. It worked!

Now that I LOVE writing, I wanted to share what I currently do to launch Writer’s Workshop! I’ve taken pieces from what I love from different resources to make what works for me and my students. This post is a little peek into my mini-lessons, anchor charts, and mentor texts that I love! I posted them in the order that I usually teach each lesson, however you can change them around to make it work for you and your group of writers! For each lesson I shared an example of an anchor chart! In my classroom, I always prepped the anchor charts with the title and an image first, but added the content WITH my students during the mini-lesson!  The books that I have posted are linked to my Amazon affiliate store. If you purchase them through the link, I will receive a small commission!

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This writer's workshop unit has everything you need to introduce and develop descriptive writing in your classroom!

Your students will create “The Ultimate Pet” and you will love reading their descriptions!

This unit includes:

*10 step by step lessons to teach descriptive writing. Each lesson includes a mini lesson, independent writing, and shared writing. Anchor chart pieces, mini-anchor charts for students' writer's notebooks, conferencing labels and sticky notes, goal setting pages are included.

Mini lessons include:

*What is descriptive writing?

*YOU as a writer!

*Generating ideas for descriptive writing.

*Show, Don't Tell writing.

*Using imagery in your writing.

*Using similes and metaphors in your writing.

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*Visualizing and illustrating.

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*FIVE extra mini lessons included: compound and complex sentences, conjunctions, correlative, subordinating, and coordinating conjunctions; affixes, and a standards based descriptive writing checklist.

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What does writer’s workshop look like ? Here is a simple pie chart infographic that is a perfect explanation for teachers. Teachers can also use this in their classrooms to help students understand the flow of writer’s workshop time. While you may not have the exact time to give as in this example, you can start with it as reference point to work from.

Check out this featured idea from the original teacher using the link below!

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Take the parts of a writer’s workshop and build your own. Choose your mini-lesson skill where you teach and the students listen. Students have time to work following the mini-lesson independently. They are working on their own pieces, not always prompt-based and during this time the teacher is conferring with students. This is the bulk of the writing time. A quick follow up time wraps up the workshop time.

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Launching writing workshop or even just setting up your writing block can feel overwhelming, but with the help of these anchor charts, you’ll feel confident and prepared to set your students up for writing success this year.  These writing workshop anchor charts and posters are perfect for back to school and will help your students remember all the important writing habits and behaviors they should practice this year.

This set of anchor charts will be your teacher bestie when it comes to launching writing workshop and setting up your writing block. These posters describe and explain key writing habits and behaviors you want your students to embrace. From building the writing process, to collecting ideas, to independent writing to peer review, these anchor charts will help you teach all these key back-to-school writing lessons. With the help of these posters, students will understand exactly what they need to do to become successful writers in your class this year.

And let’s be honest… back to school can be a stressful and busy season for teachers. Having this set of ready-to-print anchor charts will take the guesswork out of your first few weeks of writing lessons. You’ll be able to print out the anchor chart you need for your lesson each day and will be set for the first three weeks of school!  

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET:

In this resource, you’ll get 20 anchor charts to help you launch writing workshop. The posters are formatted in the following ways: 

• Half-page anchor charts - perfect for students journals
• Full page anchor charts - works great for whole group lessons
• Digital version - created using Google Slides
• FIll-in version - available for both the half-page and full-page versions and are great if you want your students to take notes during the lesson 

LOVED BY BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: 

Your students will love having access to these anchor charts during the year. They won’t feel the pressure to remember all the different parts of the writing workshop because they know they can look back in their journals anytime they need a reminder. 

You’ll love these anchor charts because they have easy-to-read font and are written with clear and concise language. Your students will understand the objective of each lesson with these anchor charts. 

So many upper elementary teachers love these anchor charts because they aren’t cluttered with excess clipart or fonts that are too “cutesy”.

And, you have options. You can choose to print them in half pages for students to glue in their journals… or you can share them with your students in Google Classroom… or you can give students the fill-in version so they can take notes during your lessons. You can pick the version that will work for you and your students. 

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the anchor chart option you want to use before your writing lesson and you’re ready to go. 

ANCHOR CHART TITLES INCLUDE: 

• All About Writer's Workshop
• Collecting Ideas
• Habits of a Strong Writer
• Independent Writing
• Looks Like/Sounds Like
• Peer Review
• Revise vs. Edit
• Sharing Our Writing
• Show Not Tell
• Story Telling
• Strong Listeners
• Student and Teacher Roles During Writing Workshop
• Think I'm Done, Now What?
• Using Mentor Texts
• What do Writers Writer?
• Why Writers Write
• Writer's Notebook
• Writing For Your Audience
• Writing Process

HOW TO USE THESE CHARTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

• Use them at the start of the school year to help launch Writing Workshop. 
• Use them throughout the year to review key writing habits and behaviors. 
• Use as a model for your whole group lessons. 
• Give students a copy to glue in their journals. 
• Send home a copy to parents to keep them informed. 
• Include a copy with your lesson plans to show your administrators what you’re teaching.
• Put posters on a ring or in a binder as a reference for small groups or workstations. 

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved using these as a resource during our writers workshop. They helped students stay focused on the lesson.” - Sarah H.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This was a very helpful resource in distance learning, but I also think it is going to be equally as helpful in-person. These are helpful to have on hand digitally and can easily be printed out. Thank you for a wonderful, helpful way to make learning more accessible in these trying times. :)” - Jaclyn Parolin

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Writers' Workshop is a great method of laying out your writing, and these posters really supported a clear structure to the system. Thank you!” - Jeanine F.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “These writing workshop anchor charts provided so much visual support to my 2nd graders! I was so thankful to have purchased such a resource that I have and will refer to throughout the year!” - Haley W.

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Purchase the Reading & Writing Workshop Bundle to get this set of posters plus 30 Reading Workshop Anchor Charts to help you launch both reading and writing workshops. 

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→ Writing Tools and Resource Bundle

→ Show Not Tell Mini Charts

→ 20 Writing Graphic Organizers

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