ELA An Easier Way

Clip Charts

You Love 'Em or Hate 'Em.

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YOU CAN REINVENT and REPURPOSE THEM.

Many of you have, or had, dozens of clothes pins with student names. Many of you used them on a behavior chart for classroom discipline either because they work for you their use mandated. I am not proposing a discussion on the effectiveness of their use as a behavior management system, rather utilizing their benefits of a quick glance to check status, their ease of use, and their efficiency of ever changing groups and student status.These charts can be for all to see or for your eyes only to keep yourself on track and organized.

~ MORNING ROUTINES ~

Students each have a clip with their name or class number; whichever you use in your classroom.

Students place their clip on the packed/cold lunch or school/hot lunch section.

A quick look and count and you're done. No need to call each student's name, have them raise their hand and count, etc.

Students place their clip on the PRESENT section when they enter the room.

A quick look and count and you're done.

~ READING GROUPS ~

Place the child's clip on the appropriate reading level and simply move the clip as they progress through levels. An efficient way to quickly see where a particular student is performing without having to open a grade book, look at your lesson plans, or locate that notebook that has several changes already.

Simply choose the system; your own groups, Guided Reading, DRA, Lexile, or Reading Recovery and clip away!

~ WRITING PROCESS ~

It can be a challenge keeping track of which student is on which stage of the writing process when working through a project. Have students, or yourself, place their clip on the step they have completed, or is working on; your choice.

A Writing Process chart allows you, or the student, to simply move the clip as they progress through steps. This can be an efficient way to quickly see where a particular student is working, how students are progressing or where they may be stuck, who to gather for a mini lesson, etc., without the hassle of digging through a stack of papers, sorting and re-sorting, and trying to make sense of where students are working and/or need assistance.

~ AVAILABLE RESOURCES ~

I have created complete sets of these clip charts in a two different themes, thus far. You can find them here:

Pencil Themed Clip Charts

Get clipping with a simple download!

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If you like the charts, but prefer a particular theme, please let me know and I can customize a set specific to your needs or classroom theme. This allows you flexibility of theme, graphic, and/or font.

SAMPLE THEMES