Anchor charts are an important part of teaching literacy along with other visual teaching tools. I admit that I struggle with the creation of these tools. There are two reasons:
I don’t feel creative or artistic enough to make an acceptable one.
I tend to put too many ideas or strategies on one chart and it looks cluttered and ineffective.
DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence, breaks the process into bite-size pieces, guiding any teacher through the steps of making effective visual teaching tools.
Four key teaching tools developed in the book include.
Teaching Charts: Teaching into Repertoire and Process
Demonstration Notebooks: Showing Students the How
Micro-progression Notebook: Supporting and Clarifying
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The authors break down the design elements into what matters most for an effective visual. Suggestions are specific and clearly spelled out.
Be sure to make use of white space and leave wide margins.
Write big and separate sections to draw attention to chunks of text.
Color is one of the easiest ways to make teaching tools attractive, possibly “branding” certain types of teaching with specific colors.
The authors end the chapter with a reminder to teachers; “But in the end, it is far, far more important that teaching tools be helpful to kids, not attractive”.
DIY Literacy is not only a “how-to” book on designing visual tools but includes advice on implementation in the classroom. Students’ learning will be positively impacted by the concrete ideas A quote from Kate and Maggie’s blog, Indent, “It’s about the personalized touch; it’s about being playful in our teaching while reaching toward academic excellence; it’s about being imperfect in the most perfect
Everything that is discussed should be written down on an I-Chart, which allows the students to visually see what the expectations are for them. These I-Charts should be something that is kept all year which means they should be fixed to a permanent place such as a wall, whiteboard, or pocket chart, says the author. According to the author there are also tools that are important to the success of each student. There are going to be students that need a little extra help when it comes to building stamina.
The interface should be clearly organized and not cluttered. This will allow the user to use the interface comfortable, get the information he or she requires will little or no effort.
We offer a wide variety of courses constructed within a self-paced curriculum and implemented by a staff highly trained in diverse teaching methods. Bridge Builder Academy students benefit from visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and other teaching methods and curriculum that are often absent in public school settings, as teachers adapt course materials and instructional techniques based on each student’s needs. Courses focus on specific content using a variety of resources: the University of Nebraska High School curriculum for many of the high school students, Real Science 4 Kids and Exploring the Building Blocks of Science by Dr. Rebecca W. Keller, Self Paced History and Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer (Volumes 1-4), Life of Fred, Saxon, Shiller, Singapore, Touch Math, The Institute for Excellence in Writing, Winston Grammar, Visualizing and Verbalizing by Linda Mood Bell, High Noon Reafers, Zane Bloser Spelling, Zane Bloser Read for Real comprehension series, Touch Phonics, Wordly Wise Vocabulary, Sonlight Curriculum. These are just a few of the resources that the Bridge Builder Academy teachers use to differentiate the curriculum to meet the unique needs of the
After reading the selection, direct a class discussion in which students share their visualizations, including as much detail as possible. Potential teacher-generated questions include…
Literacy is a vital part of all later learning. Because of this, the children will engage in hands on activities that relates to what they have read and give them opportunities to make up their own versions, as well as make up their own stories. They will have a large group story time and a partner reading time. An ample variety of books will be available at all times. Signs with words and pictures will be posted around the classroom showing, daily activities, objects that are used daily, and the placement of toys and
(2017). A few major ideas that help achieve the purpose of this type of layout are as follows: • Place the high-draw products on the perimeter of the
This course is intended for the six grade students. I am selecting to create this literacy design program based upon the educational policy. This curriculum will be a practical design because of funding concerns with this school district. The Educational policy supports the learning curriculum instruction for students in
Literacy Circles: Utilizing literacy circles urges students to verbally and illustratively identify with their thinking in regards to the reading arrangement through the association of their part. Literacy circles elevate students to imply their thinking through a blend of making structures, for instance, journals, diagrams, outlines, logs, and sketchbooks (Devick-Fry and LeSage, 2010).
For most of people, it is difficult to read extensively in a short time. However, the purpose of infographic design is to convert variety of massive and complicated statistic into data visualization, which could make people clearly and swiftly comprehend the main ideas of a text. Nevertheless, to devise an infographic is considerably difficult because the designer has to turn a complex subject into a digestible and enchanting experience. Therefore, there are three things I faced when I designed the infographic.
Multimodal texts are conveyed through three main methods; digital electronic, live or paper. E.g. Creating multimodal texts (http://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/) is a website reinforcing the three main methods of multimodal texts and their importance. An example of a contemporary multimodal text is a website or a children’s picture book, which both encompass various aspects of the modalities. These multimodal texts showcase why pedography literacy is gradually going to change and adjust to the current Australian curriculum, as technology continues to become a fundamental part of learning within the classroom.
I like the anchor chart idea because you can have it hung up in your classroom all year wrong for students to rely on. I also think that it is important to have something like that for middle school or younger students because sometimes students are too honest and don’t realize that they sound offensive at times. This anchor chart is an excellent way to start introducing how to help and speak to others when
Students started the unit by learning paper folding techniques to construct a book using only one sheet of paper. Next, students developed their stories and sketched a layout for each page. Students were able to choose a medium of their choice to develop their sketches into detailed illustrations. Finally, students created a cover that captured the subject of the book using collage techniques. Starting this week, students will be working with a variety of mediums which they manipulate to create a three dimensional space themed sculpture.
By definition, tangible representations pertain to objects and photographs or pictures that can be considered as highly iconic, or strongly resembling what they stand for, called the referent (Bruce et al., 2016, p. 425). Moreover, tangible representations can be employed expressively or receptively. Bruce et al. (2016) reviewed studies on literacy for the deaf-blind from 1990 to 2015. Findings showed the role of tangible representations and technologies in improving communicative expressiveness. Furthermore, different kinds of literacy lessons that are normally given to prelinguistic learners who are deafblind can improve self-expression. Some examples are: 1) using daily schedules to form anticipatory skills; 2) personalized story boxes to boost access and engagement with content; 3) experience books that enable the development of distancing (i.e. separation in time and space between the object of representation and the referent), and 4) chances for choice making to perform preference expression (Bruce & Conlon, 2005). For effective lessons, learners must be in a setting that promotes literacy growth. As McKenzie (2009) pointed out, an environment that is rich in plentiful literacy resources will benefit all kinds of learners, with or without disabilities. Books and other resources should be in classrooms in different forms if possible, including Braille, tactile adaptations, large print,
Creating a literacy-rich environment is one of the key elements of supporting children’s literacy development. Literacy-rich classrooms tend to look quite different than the traditional classroom, covered in pre-made posters and arranged with individual desks in rows, and instead, allow for teachers to design their classrooms with their students’ needs in mind. According to an article on the Sadlier School’s blog, all elements in a classroom must be meaningful, intentional, purposeful, and engaging when creating a literacy-rich classroom. This means that classroom design is created in a way that it provides frequent opportunities to be exposed to text via environmental print, instruction, and hands-on learning as well as encouraging communication and collaboration (Sadlier School, 2017).
Time Consuming: Drawing charts by hand is time consuming as it involves a lot of calculations.