Posters!

POSTERS!

As you can tell by the title, I'm a poster enthusiast and I'm going to talk about two posters that I have made. One is a Writing Process poster and the other is a Reading Strategy poster. I made them both for my Literacy Block and I'm pretty proud of both of them! I love, love, love posters and the possibilities of what you can display on them are endless. I personally love posters that are interactive and go along with your class theme. 

Feel free to take my idea and modify it to make your own. If you copy it down word for word, you could always give me credit or tell your educator friends about my blog!

This first picture is my Writing Process poster put together and the second one is of it being taken apart. I have a thing for puzzle piece pattern (I don't know why), but when we reviewed the writing process it came to me like one big puzzle. Each stage was a piece and when you find all of the pieces, and voila you have a completed puzzle/story. So as you can tell by the pictures, my poster can be taken apart piece by piece - literally. I intend to use it to teach the whole process, but then when my students begin writing, I will only put up one piece at a time. For instance, if my students are at the Revising stage then only four puzzle pieces will be up. I plan for it to be a reminder of what they should be doing at that certain stage and as writing tracker. I also thought it'd be a neat idea if each student had a small version of this and they could track the process independently, but that would depend entirely on your students.

What I used:
- Basic white Dollar Tree poster board
- Ribbon (I'm a crafty person, so I used what I had leftover from a previous project)
- Velcro (for easy removal of puzzle pieces - get the kind with adhesive it'll be easier!)
- Paint (I painted the title portion just because I messed up, so this was just to cover my mistakes!)
- Markers
- Clip Art (I think I'll end up remaking it and put actual pictures of what each stage looks like)

              

This is my Reading Strategy poster. I decided on the connection strategy, and then I wanted to do a theme. I originally wanted to do a detective theme, then a scuba diving theme, then an octopus, then finally decided on an under the sea/fishing theme (I like the ocean, if you can't tell). So with that theme swimming - ha - in my mind, I came up with a rough draft, a catchy title, and started drawing! Since I was doing a cutesy theme and not a step-by-step poster, I wanted to make it easy for ELL students to understand as well. So I decided to make each fish have an object that represented each type of connection (e.g. the book with the text-to-text fish), and for the students who need a little nudge I added sentence starters. Looking back, I wish I had made the sentence starters removable so that later on in the year I can take those off and not have my students use them as a crutch. I got the basic idea for this one off of Pinterest, just search making a connection poster and tons of them will pop up!

What I used:
- Basic white Dollar Tree poster board
- Printer Paper (I drew my fish on this, outlined and colored them, then cut them out and glued them to the poster)
- Crayons (I laid one flat to make the background look extra oceany)
- Markers (for outlining, I like the way it looks with outlines)


And that's my poster post! Hope you liked it and it sparked some creativity in you to make some posters to decorate your classroom (or for an assignment like I did)!


Keep On, Teaching On,
Charity