Best Practices for
Displaying Print in Your Classroom
Creating effective anchor charts with your students and incorporating them into daily instruction is very powerful. Using authentic print is definitely meaningful to the children. It is exciting to watch students learn to use the anchor charts to develop and extend their literacy and mathematical practices.
Examples of Commercial Print
Examples of Authentic Anchor Charts
“When information is presented only in spoken form, 10 percent is recalled after seventy-two hours. Add visuals and 65 percent is recalled in that same time period. (Medina, 2008)” Brain Rules
Does the print displayed in your classroom on charts and displays:
• build a sense of individual and group ownership over the classroom?
• model teacher and student handwriting versus store bought commercial print?
• acknowledge and celebrate every child’s effort?
• have a meaningful connection to current learning?
• serve as a teaching tool for students to utilize during their independent work?
• highlight authentic reading and writing tasks and strategies- those that are purposeful and meaningful in real life?
• generate excitement about learning?
Yes? No? Sometimes?
Not sure how to accomplish this?
Directions: Click the link by The Children's Literacy Initiative below and check the strategies under the following effective practices that you'd like to implement in your classroom.
Plan how and when you will implement these strategies with a colleague or coach.
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