Scaffolding

Anticipation Guide

On the anticipation guide provided, mark whether you agree or disagree with each

statement.

What big picture goals do you have for your students?

What is Scaffolding?

• Instructional strategy that helps students connect prior knowledge and experience with new information

• A student’s prior knowledge may come from previous learning in a content area or previous grade level, or from previous life experiences.

Scaffolding will…..

• support students before, during, and after learning new concepts or skills.

• put ideas and concepts into context.• help struggling and proficient readers

engage in a difficult text.

Scaffolding helps students…

• better understand what they are reading and learning.

• build confidence as they access more challenging material.

• develop college-readiness skills (metacognition, problem solving, etc.).

• become skilled and purposeful thinkers and readers.

Scaffolding can and should…• enhance the learning goal of a

lesson/unit.• encourage motivation for learning new

material.• help students transition from needing

teacher/peer assistance to independence.• be removed gradually as students begin

to demonstrate mastery and no longer provided when students can perform the task independently.

Examples of Scaffolding Activities

• Anticipation/Reaction Guide• K-W-L• Low-Stakes Pre-Writing• Annotating Text• Text Protocols (4 A’s, The Final Word,

Block Party)• Chalk Talk• Show and Tell

Examples of Scaffolding Activities

• Graphic Organizers (Flow Chart, Venn, Timeline)

• Guided Notes (not every day or student)

• RAFT: Role, Audience, Format, Topic• Think-Pair-Share• Providing Visual Aids (Picture, Virtual

Tours, etc.)• Verbal Cues and Follow Up Questions

Examples of Scaffolding Activities

• Engineering Design Process (ask, imagine, plan, create, improve)

• Pre-Reading Vocabulary• Modeling a Science Lab• Peer Tutoring (pair strong with weak)• Teacher Feedback/Error Analysis• Mnemonic Devices (PEMDAS, Roy-G-

Biv)

Examples of Scaffolding Activities

1) I Do, You Watch2) I Do, You Help

3) You Do, I Help4) You Do, I Watch

Group Brainstorm

• As a whole group, list examples of Scaffolding activities on chart paper.

• Leave chart paper posted for afternoon session.

Reaction Guide

1) True2) True 3) False 4) False

5) True 6) False 7) True 8) True

9) False 10) True

Questions?