Teaching terms starting with C

27 elementary teaching terms beginning with the letter C, covering social studies, grammar, teaching and reading. Each entry explains what the term means in a PreK-5 classroom, which grades it applies to, and how it shows up in everyday teaching, with links to matching printable worksheets.

The Teaching Wiki is written for teachers and parents who want a straight answer, not a research paper. If you have run into a C term on a report card, in a curriculum guide, or in a message from school and want to know what it actually means in practice, start here.