Making connections anchor chart kindergarten

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Making connections

Who doesn't love a good anchor chart? Now - an anchor chart with a purpose? That takes a little inspiration, and that's what this post is all about! We all teach students about making connections at some point during the school year, so I wanted to give you some great examples o

Text to self connection

This week we had a very short week with kids because of conferences. So, in reader's workshop all we had time for was to introduce schema and begin to think about what is already in our schema. The book Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor has some great ideas about to introduce the concept of schema and is a really easy read. It also has lots of pics of charts. :) Click on the pic below to check it out. I used her analogy of a spider web to help kids understand that our schema,or…

Man oh man have I been busy. I have so much stuff to upload for you guys!!! I just don't know what to use... Scribed? Google Docs? There are so many choices. But I need to decide and get on it because... I want to share with you! Yes I do! I wanna share with you! I missed my calling as a cheerleader. We have been hard at work using our Word Doctor. Thank You Cara Carroll for the original idea! I decided to get super cute and for the week on compound words, I made him a dentist. Yep. I…

text to text connections using "When Sophie Gets Angry & I Was So Mad by M Mayer