Takeaways: Charts I made for my future classroom.

 I absolutely LOVE Mrs. Casey's use of text coding with almost every lesson. She has a chart similar to this one, and she uses it usually with informational texts like TIME for Kids. The students' first read the story and put their own text codes beside the passages as they read. Mrs. Casey also projects the copy of the text on the board, and she puts a few text codes as she reads as well. Then she calls on different students' to go put a code on the board where they put one on their paper. They then read the text together. They pause throughout to discuss the codes that are beside a particular passage. I love this because readers are thinkers! This really encourages students to think about the text as they read it!

Another takeaway I will use in my future classroom is think, pair, and share. I was already familiar with this strategy, but I really liked Mrs. Casey's anchor chart and reference to it throughout her lessons. I made this anchor chart to use! I even added think, pair, and share strategy to all my lessons taught in Mrs. Casey's class.

 

by clicking the gray pin button on the toolbar below!

Expository Writing Anchor Chart

I also made this Expository writing anchor chart for Mrs. Casey's class. I love that it color codes each section! This will definitely be useful for students' to go back and ensure they have included each element in their expository writing.

by clicking the gray pin button on the tool bar below!

Sequencing Chart

I created this sequencing chart to use with an expository writing lesson and hang in Mrs. Casey's classroom for future reference.  Students' need to be comfortable with the word sequence, and know that it can apply to their writing (not just math!) as well. 

by clicking the gray pin button on the tool bar below!