3-5 Upper Elementary

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in elementary school grades 3-5.

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  • Inspiring a Love of Reading Within a Science of Reading Framework

    These evidence-based practices can help reading motivation and proficiency grow alongside one another.
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  • Math Problem Design Studio

    Students step into the role of problem designer, building original math word problems from a real-world scenario, then testing their design by having classmates solve it and catch the trap.

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    • 3-5 Upper Elementary
    • 6-8 Middle School

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  • Teaching Elementary Students to Use Audio and Graphic Design Tools

    Teachers can amplify students’ creativity by showing them how to demonstrate their learning with multimedia applications.

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  • A More Efficient and Productive Way to Conduct Math Assessments

    Here’s how to assign graded work that more accurately assesses elementary students’ learning and saves time.

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  • Exploring Before Explaining Sparks Learning

    New elementary science teachers can build student engagement and enhance learning by using the explore-before-explain approach.

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  • The Benefits of Using Choice Boards in Math

    How math choice boards can enable new elementary teachers to meet the needs of their individual learners while employing mathematical rigor.

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  • A Framework for Building Older Students’ Literacy Skills

    Encouraging middle school students to read books of all genres and reading levels can reignite their interest in reading.

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  • The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn

    Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
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  • How to Lock In New Vocabulary in 10 Minutes a Day  

    A weeklong vocabulary routine with movement and repetition helps students go beyond definitions and put new words to use in conversation and writing.
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  • 60-Second Strategy: Waterfall Reading

    This choral reading activity builds fluency and confidence, especially for students who feel overwhelmed at the prospect of reading out loud alone.
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  • How Movement and Repetition Help Vocabulary Stick

    A daily routine that combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic inputs helps students learn new words, recognize them when reading, and remember their meanings.
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  • Making Students Feel Safe

    A trauma-informed approach ensures that students feel safe, supported, and nurtured—to improve their chances of academic success. 
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  • Adapting Socratic Seminars for Elementary

    With a few key modifications, teachers can make a complex academic discussion into an excellent learning opportunity for younger students.
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  • A Daily Support System for Students

    Students who need extra social and emotional support have a quick check-in with an adult at the start and end of each day.
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  • 5 Ways to Teach Embodied Phonics

    These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.
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