You Can't Have Too Many Editing Reminders

Faubion 4th grade teacher, Mark Hansen, expects his students to practice editing their own work. He has invested the time in teaching them how to edit. He knows it is better for writers to know how to edit their own work than to have the teacher correct all their errors for them. Once they know how to edit, he wants them to continue to do so. This chart, posted in a visible classroom spot, helps them remember and guides their work.

Adding to the Anchor Chart

Third graders in Gail Burak's class at Capital Hill add their own web ideas to the class model.

Sentence Openers

Anchor charts are a great way to keep track of the various ways writers open and vary sentences. Kylene Parks used this chart to work on interesting sentences with her 4th graders at Boise-Eliot.

Verb Revision Lesson