Dialogue anchor chart

We’ve been busy working on narratives in writing (post about that coming soon!), so it seemed like the perfect time...

Quotation Marks Anchor Chart (with FREEBIE)- Teach your students about the placement of tags when writing dialogue.

3rd grade dialogue anchor chart

Writing Dialogue Anchor Chart - 4th Grade FLC

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My 2016-2017 Classroom Set-Up: I switched schools and grade levels over the summer, and I am excited to announce that I am teaching 4th grade this year. I am especially thrilled to finally have WALLS, a DOOR, WINDOWS, a SINK, and more! (If you scroll down to previous years, you'll see those were things my old school did not have). While moving and organizing everything has taken quite some time, everything is finally moved over and organized (for the most part). These pictures were taken…

We have been brushing up on our quotation skills the last couple of weeks. It is such a hard skill for students to grasp in first grade, but once they reach second grade it's like something "clicks" and they can pick it up quickly. (So don't stress yourselves out first grade teachers!) Here is our quotation mark anchor chart... we used quotes from our Magic Tree House read aloud that we have been reading. During stations, we used play-dough to create quotation marks on our sentence cards…

I probably won't blog much about teaching (my actual job), because this blog is suppose to be fun, a hobby, something I WANT to do! Teaching is great job and all, but work is work, and nothing is as fun when you HAVE to do it. (I have a secret life plan to make teaching less work and more fun, but more on that in the future). Anyway, I made some charts this week that I thought came out pretty good (or are good ideas at least) and since I found some of the ideas online, I thought other online…

Teaching dialogue is tricky and helping students learn WHY dialogue is so important in reading and writing can help start things off on the right foot. Check out this post for teaching ideas, writing anchor charts, and lesson ideas about teaching dialogue concepts including punctuating dialogue and more!