Dialogue punctuation anchor chart

Anchor Chart - rules for punctuating dialogue

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

Writing Dialogue Anchor Chart - 4th Grade FLC

3rd grade dialogue anchor chart

'4B' was the code our school secretary used to easily identify our class back when I taught 4th grade. 4 = 4th grade. B = Bongers. I later went on to teach Language Arts at a middle school, so this blog documents the learning we did in reading and writing each day, in addition to many posts from when I taught fourth grade. I figured keeping it all in one place was better than having two separate blogs. One more thing: please feel free to PIN anything you see!

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

We've only been homeschooling for about 6 weeks and we've already moved our classroom. Actually, we moved it about four weeks ago. Yes, it kind of sucked, but it really worked out for the best. Our old classroom was in the dining room and after a couple of weeks I decided to take my craft room that I had only just begun working on and give it up! Crazy right? I was a bit sad, but I knew it had to be done! I really wanted to have a dining room and a separate classroom space. Honestly, who has…

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…

Punctuation Anchor Chart- graphics from scrappin' doodle

This is a great anchor chart for teaching fourth graders rules for using quotation marks in their writing. We tied it to a promethium board interactive lesson and a winter dialogue packet.