Anchor Activities

Anchor Learning

Anchor Activities
Anchor Activities communicate that learning
never stops in your classroom.

Marzano, R., Heebower, T. (2012).

Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills:
The Classroom Strategies Series.
Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research
Laboratory.

Critical-Thinking Games

Slot Machines
Checkers
Concentration
Chess
Puzzles
Wheel of Fortune
Card Games
PacMan
Centipede
Mario Brothers

Legos
Blocks
Rubiks Cube
Pattern Blocks

How do you have time for

games when you have to teach
the standards?

Making 10s

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www.mathplayground.com

Math Lands (Lite FREE)

Set

Pattern Blocks

Close to 20

6 + 6 + 5 = 17
Score: 3

Pick 3: Close to 20

10 + 4 + 4 = 18
Score: 2

Learning Contracts Include:

what the student plans to learn.
how the student plans to learn it.
what working conditions will occur
while the student is learning the
content.

Learning Contract Assessment

I selected a topic that held my interest.
I learned something new.
I demonstrated this new knowledge on my chosen
project.
I did my best work on my chosen project.
I followed the working conditions.
I asked for help when I needed it.
I would like another opportunity to work on a
learning contract in the future.

Student

Teacher

Working Conditions

Work without disturbing others.

Avoid interrupting the teacher while he's teaching.
Put forth your best effort.
Work on another anchor activity if you get stuck on
something and the teacher is unavailable to help.

Think-Tac-Toe
Write a report

Create a comic strip

Host a talk show

Create a timeline

Keep a journal

Compare subject
to animal

Create a mind map

Write song lyrics

Develop gestures

What do good readers do?

Connect
Predict
Summarize
Monitor
Visualize
Infer
Question

Lets Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.!

By:

Peter and Connie Roop

Headings

Questions

Martin Luther King, Jr.,

is Born

When was Martin Luther King, Jr., born?

Mike King, Jr., Gets a

New Name

Why did Mike King, Jr., get a new name?

What was it?

Martin Learns More

Lessons

What lessons did Martin learn?

Martin Learns a Bitter

Lesson

What bitter lesson did Martin learn? How

was it different from the previous lessons
learned?

Martins First Sermon

What was Martins first sermon about?

Martin Becomes a
Leader

What character traits did Martin possess

to make him a leader?

Martin Makes a
Difference

How did Martin make a difference?