teacher/student created charts for the classroom

From the book: photos of 201 teacher-created charts

1. Class sign in - p.12 Numbers with lines. Laminate. STudents write name with white board marker each day.
2. Class rules... "We agree that..." we will not hurt anyone's feelings. We will not hurt anyone's body. We will not hurt the school.
3. How can we make this a great classroom? We will be nice to each other, share, listen, work together. Sign at the bottom
4. Qualities of a friend - list them... Then add students names at the bottom. draw picture of themselves, or something like that
5. Meet our classmates. "Meet Amanda" Have each sstudent answer questions on their own paper (how old are you. do you have brothers/sisters? what kinda of pets? What is your favorite food/toy?) then copy them onto chart paper and display around the room.
6. What do we like to read about? Chart each students name and what they like to read about the most.
7. Decoding Tools, see page 37 - "guess and go on" use the sounds of the first letters, ask a friend. use the words around it, skip the word and keep going, think of a word that makes sense, put another word in its place. look it up in the dictionary.
8. hula hoop venn diagram for comparing/contrasting
9. Making connecttions - "when i read the part about..." words and pictures; "it reminded me of..." words and pictures.
10. Overused words - "so, really, very, good nice" OR! "whats another word for..." very (incredibly, extremley, terribly, overly, extraordinarily); great (fantastic, fabulous, awesome), nice (kind, sweet, helpful, friendly, pleasant); fun (exciting, enjoyable, cool, awesome)
11. In the place of "said", see page 59 - say, cried, demanded, confessed, barked, suggested, called, repeated, begged, whispered, agreed, screamed anounced, stated
12. "When writers illustrate they..." stretch, outline, color, add detail ---- with examples, see pg. 66
13. words that tell us to add: in all, all together, sum, how many are there?, total
14. Computer Words - file, exit, space par, esc(escape), enter, delete, monitor, backspace, shutdown, program, mouse, keyboard, printer
15. Kind words --- please, thank you, excuse me, sorry, its okay, i love you, you're welcome, goodbye, hello, share, care, kind, cooperation, nice fair, honest, helping, polite, excellent, compassion, responsibiilty, courage
16. Scrapbook wall - of pictures, poems, stories, etc.