The ANCHOR connects the topic you’re teaching to the learner’s experience. This part of a learning task ensures relevancy for your particular group and begins to indicate why this information is important to them right now. A well-crafted anchor question invites learners to share ways that the content is relevant or connected to their experience.

By default, the anchor words in the list are sorted by relevance/relatedness. You can also get the most common anchor terms using the menu below, or sort the words alphabetically to get anchor words starting with a particular letter.

Make sure the layout is clear, and the information is presented in a way that is quick and easy to grasp at a glance. Suitable for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade, this verb anchor chart includes three different versions. The first is a complete verb anchor chart detailing past, present, and future for five regular verbs.

There is a lot of grammar to cover, so split it up. You can look at one specific aspect on an anchor chart, such as commas. You can also make natural links between aspects of grammar. For example: Use an anchor chart to show how nouns have a singular and a plural. The next anchor chart can focus on concord (subject-verb agreement) in a sentence.