What's an Anchor Chart?

Before reading Gregory and Cahill's article, I had never heard of the term anchor chart. An anchor chart is a chart that you create as a class that helps to ‘anchor’ information in student’s minds. In the case of this article, they used anchor charts to ask questions about the story and then make inferences. I liked seeing their examples of anchor charts in the article, so I thought I would look for some more good ones.

I like this one because it is laminated and can be reused!

This is a neat way to think about inferences.

Have you seen teachers use anchor charts in the school? Will you use them?