Every reading strategy you teach, right at your students' fingertips! 📚
This bundle has notebook anchor charts for every Reading Literature AND Reading Informational standard for grades 3-5, plus graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction. It's the #1 resource teachers come back for after trying a Literacy Loft freebie!
Why notebook anchor charts?
- Students actually use them. Charts on the wall get forgotten. Charts glued in a reading notebook are there every time students read independently.
- Save copies. They print two per page, sized for composition notebooks.
- Easier lessons. A big topic like theme becomes a concrete, step-by-step chart you can teach from.
- Families can use them too. Parents see the same language you use in class.
What's included
Reading Literature charts
Key Ideas & Details: Wise Readers Ask Questions · Using Text Evidence · Inference · Character Feelings · Character Traits · Recount Stories (2 versions) · Summarize Stories (Somebody Wanted But So) · Think FAST about the Characters · FAST Chart (3 versions) · 5 Elements of a Story · Story Mountain · Crafting a Theme Statement · Theme · THEMEssage · Common Themes
Craft & Structure: Literal vs. Nonliteral Language · Figurative Language · Idioms (4 charts) · Allusion · Poetry, Drama & Prose · Point of View (2 charts)
Integration of Knowledge & Ideas: The Quest · Movie vs. Text (2 charts) · Comparing Themes, Topics & Patterns of Events · Good vs. Evil · Thinking about Theme · Revealing the Theme
Extra reading charts & tools: Story in a Nutshell organizers · Main Idea Boxes & Bullets · Writing a Summary · Let's Talk Genre! · Traditional Literature · My Reading Log · Words We Should All Spell Correctly · Transitions · Responding to Fiction & Nonfiction · Readers Choose Just Right Books · Reading Resolutions · Ways I Can Grow as a Reader · Parts of Speech · Reading Is Thinking
Reading Informational charts
Key Ideas & Details: Super Star Partnerships · Wise Readers Ask Questions · Using Text Evidence · Types of Informational Texts · Main Ideas and Supporting Details · Inference · Talking about the Text · Main Idea organizers · Summarizing Nonfiction · Determining Importance · Sentence Starters for Main Idea · See, Think, Wonder
Craft & Structure: Alpha Boxes · Context Clues · Firsthand vs. Secondhand Accounts · Primary vs. Secondary Sources · Text Structures (Description, Sequence, Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Problem & Solution) · Nonfiction Signal Words
Integration of Knowledge & Ideas: Reasons & Evidence · Text Features (3 charts) · Combining Texts (plus organizer) · Bonus: My To-Read List
Teach the skills too? These charts pair perfectly with the 3rd Grade and 4th & 5th Grade Reading Mini Unit Bundles. Want writing charts too? Get the Reading & Writing Notebook Charts Ultimate Bundle.
💛 Want it ALL?
The TLL Membership gives you every set of notebook anchor charts PLUS hundreds of other grades 3-5 ELA resources (morning work, reading mini units, text sets, and more) for one monthly price.
Already a member? These are already included in your membership, so no need to purchase!
Looking for a chart that isn't here? Email me at help@theliteracyloft.com. I'm always adding more!
Happy teaching!
-Jessica
