Adaptable Lessons for Grades 3-5 in 5.5 Hours

Teaching late elementary ELA comes with a specific set of challenges not seen in earlier grades. Kids are starting to look around the room and compare their ELA skillsets to those of their peers. If they feel that they don’t measure up, they may engage in work avoidance behaviors before you even start your lesson. You may hear verbalizations that the content is “dumb”. They may rush through their work without thoroughly completing the assignment, just so they can get it over with.

How do you bring them back? What can you do to reinforce skills that weren’t fully mastered in prior grades that they need to have for the upcoming unit? What are some high interest activities that reluctant readers would enjoy participating in?

Our 5.5 hour Differentiated ELA 3-5 training covers how to assess for specific areas of need, engaging ways to incorporate deficit areas into the upcoming unit, common barriers to learning seen in the late elementary population and how to address them, and high interest lesson ideas incorporating music, movement, and art.