Theatrically Third

This anchor chart can be kept in your students' author folders/writing workshop notebooks as a resource you'll add to all year long. Each time you encounter a new genre/type of text in your read-alouds, have students add it to the list. You can also print a poster size to model or display digitally. Be sure to include environmental print types of text that aren't usual genres: recipes, shopping lists, billboards...When students encounter texts outside of school and come tell you a new one for th

This is a fantastic resource your growing authors will use all year long. I use this to launch my writing workshop, and my students keep it in a page protector in their author folders to add on to throughout the year. There are a couple of different versions as well as a blank copy for you to add your own labels, but the idea is that students jot down/draw/parents send in pics of important people/memories. We call it a heart map because these are moments that are etched into our heart - not all