Anchor Charts

Anchors are fantastic! I use them in my room. Most teachers premake them and post on the wall. I do them with my students.  I talk about the concept, teach the concept then we talk about what we see, the image in our heads when we think of the concept. EX: compound words, I think of a butterfly because the word butterfly is a compound word.  Then I pass out paper to the students and I take a large sheet of paper and tape it to my board. Together the students and I draw the concept. Theirs goes in their anchor chart binder and mine is posted on the wall. I talk as I draw, "I am going to draw a big bird biting on bitter bird seeds as my alliteration."