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
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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 Watch
2) I Do, You Help
3) You Do, I Help
4) You Do, I Watch
Other Examples ??
Reaction Guide
1) True
2) True
3) False
4) False
5) True
6) False
7) True
8) True
9) False
10) True
Tuning a Plan for Scaffolding
Focus Question:
What evidence of scaffolding exists
in this lesson plan and how can I
build more scaffolding into it?