Teaching Upper Elementary (3-5)

Articles, ideas, and resources for teaching the upper elementary grades 3-5, especially strategies & activities that can help below-level secondary learners catch up. | Cult of Pedagogy
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Your child has nightly reading homework. What should YOU be doing?
Your child has been assigned to read every night for homework. What should you be doing to make sure this reading benefits the child the most? | Cult of Pedagogy
Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
Want better differentiation? Learn how to use this simple method for providing students with customized plans for working through a unit of study. | Cult of Pedagogy
Your child has nightly reading homework. What should YOU be doing?
Your child has been assigned to read every night for homework. What should you be doing to make sure this reading benefits the child the most? | Cult of Pedagogy
Uncovering Your Blind Spots: An Exercise for Teachers
Becoming a more inclusive educator means making shifts in our learning environments to engage all learners, and a big part of that shift is uncovering our biases, finding out who we think of as “us” and who we think of as “them.” | Cult of Pedagogy
Classroom Management: 4 Keys to Starting the Year off Right | Cult of Pedagogy
If your classroom management is haphazard, you'll want to learn how to set up a successful system from the start of the new school year! | Cult of Pedagogy
Student-Made E-Books: A Beautiful Way to Demonstrate Learning
Need a fresh idea for the end of a unit? Instead of writing a paper or doing presentations, have students create PDF e-books they can enjoy and share for years. | Cult of Pedagogy
How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors
Teaching grammar in isolation is not only ineffective, it can actually make student writing worse. So when students make mistakes, what should teachers do? | Cult of Pedagogy
Teachers, Start Students with a Clean Slate this School Year!
Mentally comparing current students with those from prior years can be harmful for both you and students. Here are 3 pitfalls of teacher nostalgia and 3 ways to overcome it. | Cult of Pedagogy
12 Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
Advice from three ELL teachers on the things regular classroom teachers can do to help English language learners thrive in mainstream classrooms. | Cult of Pedagogy
Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids | Cult of Pedagogy
A collection of prompts and phrases that give students the tools to participate thoughtfully in a world of differences.
How to Spot Dyslexia, and What to Do Next
Learn the traits that might indicate dyslexia in students and what you can do inside and outside the classroom to better support these students. | Cult of Pedagogy
The Step-by-Step Guide for Using Hexagonal Thinking in Your Classroom
Hexagonal thinking generates connections between ideas and creates active discussion and critical thinking, | Cult of Pedagogy
3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive
Culturally responsive teaching is less about using racial pride as a motivator and more about mimicking the strategies students' communities use to teach them long before they come to school. | Cult of Pedagogy
Untangling the Debate Over Reading Instruction | Cult of Pedagogy
When it comes to teaching kids how to read, what is the big debate about? And what does research say we should be doing?
The Compliments Project
If you want to build trust in your classroom, you need to see this video about a powerful activity where students give compliments in an unforgettable way. | Cult of Pedagogy