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Pocket Charts
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I love pocket charts! I have them all over my classroom, and typically use between 6 and 10 at any given time. A few are attached to precious wall space, but most of them are hung from inexpensive rolling laundry racks, so that they're easy to bring out during Literacy Centers, and easy to store out of the way when we're not using them.
My K~1 students love working with pocket charts ... matching text, changing stories, building words, singing songs, and reading chants and poems. Our Song of the Month is in one, our Monthly "Happy" Book (Scarecrow Happy, etc.) is in another, and I use them daily for whole group and small group instruction in phonemic awareness and concepts about print. They're also terrific for giving step-by-step make-it-yourself directions in centers.
Each of my reading groups has Pocket Charts on their Literacy Centers workboard two days per week. Pocket charts are extra special because the students get to use the Magic Wands (pointers with glitter inside) and wear the Magic Reading Glasses (my optometrist donates them, after she takes the lenses out). The students also can choose Pocket Charts when it's their turn to do either Read the Room or Write the Room, two more very popular Literacy Center activities.
I have two large Pocket Charts that are devoted to Making Words activities, and also have four small yellow Pocket Charts that came with my Scholastic Literacy Place reading series, that the kids use on the floor or on their desk for making words and building sentences out of word cards. Those charts came with transparent letter cards that are also used on the overhead as another Literacy Center activity.
I also have seasonal and thematic vocabulary in one or two pocket charts at a time. I make two sets of each word, in matching colors, and I glue an illustration (usually from clip art or a blackline mini book) on the end of one card, to help them read the word. The kids get to match the non-picture cards to the picture ones, which is a great activity for helping them distinguish individual letters, beginning and ending sounds, and digraphs and blends. They use these charts like a Word Wall during Writer's Workshop, taking the non-picture card to their desk. Emergent readers and writers are especially fond of making their own picture dictionary style word books, where they print the word and draw an illustration to help them remember what it says.
Something new that I added this year are table-top pocket charts, that use 1" high sentence strips. I bought mine from Teacher's Resource Center, along with two-sided cardboard stands to hold them. I put seasonal and thematic poems in them -- some of my favorite poetry books are listed below.
My students and I agree ... pocket charts are our favorite hands-on reading resource, for group instruction as well as individual and partner reading!
My Favorite Pocket Chart Resources
Pocket
Charts for Emergent Readers
Terrific interactive pocket charts for beginning readers.
This practical guide includes easy-to-follow
directions for making more than 30 interactive charts using poems, songs,
predictable stories, and more.
20% off Scholastic's price.
The
Pocket Chart Book
Wonderful activities tie in to all your favorite themes throughout
the year: snowmen, penguins, rainbows, kites, friends, birthdays,
Christmas and Thanksgiving, losing a tooth, butterflies, wishes, and more.
Something I especially like about this book are the sections on Pocket
Charts for Making Things, Pocket Charts for Math, and Pocket Charts from
Poem to Project. They make terrific centers!
20% off Scholastic's price.
Building
Literacy With Interactive Charts
A Practical Guide for Creating 75 Engaging
Charts from Songs, Poems, and Fingerplays
Includes reproducible patterns for building
a print-rich environment.
Especially helpful to teachers setting up
Literacy Centers and designing an
integrated curriculum, balanced literacy classroom.
20% off Scholastic's price.
Ready Made Pocket Chart Sets
Scholastic, Creative Teaching Press, and McCracken
all sell ready-made
pocket chart sets. I especially like
the ones from CTP and Scholastic, because they have beautiful color photography
illustrations. The ones from CTP match their small books ~ you can
find them at your local teacher supply store. Amazon sells the Scholastic
sets ~ most of them are 20% off, less than you pay through the book club.
Birthdays - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Nursery Rhymes - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Farm Animals - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Harvest Time - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Pumpkins - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Seasons - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Community - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Butterflies - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Creepy Crawlies - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Transportation - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Teeth - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Rain Forest - Scholastic Interactive Pocket Charts
Pocket Chart Poetry
These are my favorite poetry resource books
for pocket chart poetry. For shorter poems, I write the poems on
1 inch sentence strips and display them in two-sided table top charts that
we use during Guided Reading and Literacy Centers. Longer poems go
in large pocket charts, with an extra set of text for matching.
A
Poem a Day
180
Thematic Poems and Activities That Teach and Delight All Year Long
Poetry for each and every day of the school
year, with corresponding activities.
20% off Scholastic's price.
101
Science Poems & Songs for Young Learners: With Hands-On Activities
Another terrific resource for integrating
your curriculum.
20% off Scholastic's price.
Thematic
Poems, Songs and Fingerplays
45
Irresistible Phymes and Activities to Build Literacy
20% off Scholastic's price.
Counting
Caterpillars and Other Math Poems
A great new collection of poems to integrate your curriculum
20% Scholastic's price.
Animal
Poems from A to Z
An excellent resource for letter of the week,
animal units, or everyday poetry.
Looking for more ideas?
My bookstore pages have lots of information on how I use various materials in my classroom, and on activities you can do with your students. The thematic pages are complete unit resources, with lots of poems, songs, and links on each page. Make yourself comfortable and take a look around!
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