→ Picture of the Day – Elements of Fiction Bundle All these resources combined will help you teach a stellar fiction unit. Purchase the Elements of Fiction Bundle to get this set of posters plus Task Cards, Graphic Organizers, Journal Tabs, and a Word Wall. Put posters on a ring or in a binder as a reference for small groups or workstations.Include a copy with your lesson plans to show your administrators what you’re teaching.Send home a copy to parents to keep them informed.Give students a copy to glue in their journals.Use as a model for your whole group lessons.HOW TO USE THESE CHARTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM: Prep is quick and easy… Just print the anchor chart option you want to use before your lesson and you’re ready to go. You can pick the version that will work for you and your students. You can choose to print them in half pages for students to glue in their journals… or you can share them with your students in Google Classroom… or you can give students the fill-in version so they can take notes during your lessons. 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. I think it will be worth it!įor another article on ideas for teaching nonfiction, check out this article on reading strategies.This resource is included in the Stellar Literacy Collective. If you feel brave, try creating an anchor chart of your own. As reference for mini-lessons on each type of text feature.As a reference for a text features scavenger hunt.Use this anchor chart in a variety of ways. I used this expository nonfiction anchor chart as a class introduction to expository nonfiction texts and the students referred to it in several activities that we did in class. I have to admit, I debated several minutes before I actually took my scissors and began cutting, but after I saw the end result of the anchor chart and after the students oohed and awed over it, I knew that this book was benefiting the students much more as an anchor chart than it had on my shelf. Yes, I think it was a brave move, but I have no regrets. Another advantage of choosing this wonderful book for my expository nonfiction anchor chart was that I had several copies on my shelf, so I still had plenty of books that I could use in small groups or that students could read independently.
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