So many upper elementary teachers love these anchor charts because they aren’t cluttered with excess clipart or fonts that are too “cutesy”.Īnd, you have options. Your students will understand all the elements of fiction with these anchor charts. You’ll love these anchor charts because they have easy-to-read font and are written with clear and concise language. They won’t feel the pressure to remember all the different vocabulary terms connected to understanding fiction texts because they know they can look back in their journals anytime they need a reminder. Your students will love having access to these anchor charts during the year. 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.Digital version - created using Google Slides.Full page anchor charts - works great for whole group lessons (black & white and color options).Half-page anchor charts - perfect for students journals (black & white and color options).In this resource, you’ll get 17 Elements of Fiction Anchor Charts formatted in the following ways: These anchor charts will take the guesswork out of your teaching and serve as the backbone to your unit on the elements of fiction.
Having a ready-to-print anchor chart that explains and defines key elements of fiction terms to help us our students can be a huge lifesaver. There is a lot of information that even teachers need to research and study before teaching a lesson. There are so many vocabulary terms and details associated with understanding fiction texts from knowing the difference between a protagonist and antagonist to understanding the four types of conflict to knowing how to communicate tone and mood. With the help of these posters, your students will remember and understand the key elements of fiction.Īnd let’s be honest…sometimes teaching reading in upper elementary can be challenging even for teachers. These posters provide a student-firiendly definition and explanation of a key element of fiction. This set of anchor charts will be your teacher bestie when it comes to teaching elements of fiction. These elements of fiction anchor charts and posters will help your students remember all the key story elements and as an added bonus these posters are a great addition to an interactive reading notebook. If you really want to help your students understand fiction texts, then you need to dig deep into the elements of fiction. If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade more than likely you have to teach your students to understand elements of fiction that go beyond just identifying the characters, setting, and plot of a story.
They also allow for active engagement, an essential part to any mini lesson. They provide the teacher a framework where you can share your thinking as you model how to go through the process. It gives the brain a safe place to rest, a predictable format that allows the brain to focus on the new material. So why do I use these charts? Well, they provide a framework to model the comprehension strategy. Also, on the same page as the photo, I suggested some ways to use each chart. I took a full color photo of each chart so that you can use it as a sample for easy assembly. And while it does take some time to put them together, once completed they can be used over and over again with various pieces of text…no more wasted chart paper. Now, these charts do require assembly and are full color. There are charts for: Story Elements, Retelling, Story Maps, Making Predictions, Inferences, Connections, Vocabulary, Fiction/Non Fiction, Characters, Partner Work, and Questioning. In all I made 21 interactive post it note anchor charts for teaching various comprehension strategies. Old, worn out, faded, “ugly” clip art, and **GASP** parts of them were handwritten! Well two weeks later and I finally finished up my set of Interactive Post It Note Anchor Charts. Well, to say the least, they were looking pretty bad. One of the things that I share in that session are some anchor charts that I made for teaching reading comprehension. Two weeks ago I started revamping some of my older presentations when I decided that my comprehension session needed a serious facelift.
Just had a “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” experience.